Salts cut death in pregnancy
A cheap and simple treatment can halve the chances of women developing a dangerous complication of pregnancy which kills more than 50,000 mothers and their unborn babies a year worldwide.
Diet industry will be winner in battle of the bulge as Europe goes to fat
A tide of obesity will sweep Europe over the next four years and cause a boom in the diet industry as consumers try to get back into shape, market analysts said yesterday.
‘My body felt as if it were splitting in two’
Lia Hattersley developed a disabling condition in pregnancy that confounded conventional treatment. Here, she reveals how she eventually found the help she needed.
Nature’s pharmacy
It's an ancient Indian cure-all recently patented in the US to treat AIDS. Andrew Purvis on the neem tree.
Infertility alert for thin women
Catwalk chic has created a passion for skinniness - but a new study reveals over-zealous dieting can permanently switch off the hormones that make pregnancy possible.
Breastfeeding may help prevent cot death
Scientists writing in the medical journal Archives of Disease in Childhood published today have found that the babies who are breastfeed are slightly but significantly less likely to die of sudden infant death syndrome than bottlefed babies.
Breast is best – for mum too
Joanna Moorhead is amazed at the many advantages of breastfeeding.
Sorry, but your soul just died
A decade ago Francis Fukuyama shook the world of ideas with his assertion that we had reached the end of history. Now he has looked into the future and doesn't like what he sees. In these exclusive extracts from his eagerly anticipated new book he argues that science runs the risk of destroying humanity as we know it.