Time, and the great healer

In 1943, a young research scientist found a cure for TB. It should have been the proudest moment of Albert Schatz's life, but ever since he has watched, helpless, as another man got all the credit. Veronique Mistiaen reports.

Huge HRT trial is abandoned

A £20m international investigation into the risks and benefits of hormone replacement therapies was abandoned yesterday in another big setback to the HRT industry.