My life as a cyborg

Three months after having an electronic device implanted into his brain to control the symptoms of his Parkinson's disease, David Beresford reports on his progress.

Rupert Billingham

Pioneering scientist who made key discoveries that led to successful human organ transplants.

Bad medicine

Homeopathy is based on a 300-year-old mistake and magnetic therapy is simply fraudulent. As for oxygen-fortified drinks ... Christopher Wanjek debunks some popular medical myths.

Carry on up the colon

John Sutherland: The man who won a Nobel prize for economics by sticking telescopic tubes up people's bottoms.

Sliced liver, anyone?

The first public autopsy in Britain for 170 years brought back vivid memories of medical school - and an acute sense of hunger - for the Guardian's junior doctor Michael Foxton.