Nature’s pharmacy

Used by the Chinese as a panacea for 2,000 years, ginseng can boost your sex life as well as your immune system.

Streets ahead

Britain's first hospital for sick children is marking its 150th birthday by drawing together medical notes and photographs that reveal a revolution in how young patients were treated. By Peter Day

Injecting some sense

Save the Children Fund last week accused a major vaccine programme of putting pharmaceutical industry profits above the needs of children.

Dame Sheila Sherlock

The world-class doctor who pioneered the study of liver disease has died aged 83.

Animal instinct

Why do chimps chew on leaves that they clearly find revolting? And why do elephants risk death to extract rocks from a mountain cave in Kenya? Perhaps they know something we don't about staying healthy, says Jerome Burne.

Baby alarm

Lucy Atkins on the new device that will tell you exactly when you are going to give birth.