Neurologist sacked
A world-renowned British neurologist will be dismissed today as director of Singapore's National Neuroscience Institute.
A history of unsatisfactory diagnoses
Nicholas Lezard finds Roy Porter's Madness a fascinating and useful assessment of the causes and treatment of mental illness
The cancer revolution
When Sarah Allen, a mother of four, discovered she had a virulent form of breast cancer, she feared for her future. Two years on, she is the symbol of a biotechnological success that promises to change for ever our treatment of disease. Jo Revill reports.