Scottish microbes may take on superbugs

An Edinburgh-based company just given £50,000 to scour the Scottish tidal pools may have found a new weapon against hospital superbugs.

Chemical threats to boys’ sex health investigated

Science advisers urge wide-ranging review of how lifestyles affect fertility.

Coming soon: health inventions that could change our lives

From the clever spectacles that remember for you to the supermarket smartcard that stops you buying fatty food, a brief guide to the health gadgets of the future.

Cut that fat, Big Brother is watching

Health experts predict an array of gadgets will help us live longer. Jo Revill reports on new ways to monitor patients.

If the arnica pills don’t work…

... do any other homeopathic remedies work? Sally Weale investigates.