If you have ears…

In Equals, Adam Phillips explores one of the greatest and most fundamental gifts man has - the ability to listen and be listened to

Make-believe medicine

Do placebos work? New research suggests they work surprisingly well - in fact rather better than some conventional drugs. By Jerome Burne.

Eric Boyland

Scientist whose pioneering work showed how cancer develops in the human body.

This herbal remedy could save my father’s life. Why won’t someone give us some?

Emily Fielden on her family's desperate hunt for PC Spes.

Life with a basin of gravy

The Truth About Babies is a beautiful and welcome book that reveals just what your baby will do to you

Obesity linked to TVs in toddlers’ bedrooms

The first research into TV and pre-school obesity blames the growing practice of giving toddlers their own bedroom TVs.

Africa declares war on its invisible scourge

Ambitious plan to end centuries of poverty by killing off the tsetse fly.