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.
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.