Monitoring new drugs

New drugs may have side effects which - at worst - kill. So why not change how they are monitored?

When one becomes two

It took 84 hours to separate Ganga and Jamuna, who were born joined at the head. As the fight to save them continues, John Aglionby meets the surgical team in Singapore.

Get out of that

Psychotherapist Adam Phillips brings out the escape artist in us all in Houdini's Box

James Meek

If you must drill a hole in someone's head, make sure it's worthwhile.

Consenting adults

If you have ever seen a doctor, you are being tracked. Information about you is being stored and analysed as part of a vast pool of medical data. But now this crucial area of research is under threat, warns Ben Traynor, because of moves to force medics to seek patients' permission for every study.

The crafty professor

When he helped a 60-year-old woman get pregnant, Ian Craft became Britain's most controversial IVF doctor. Now he's back in the news again. Dea Birkett meets him.

Trial and error

Medical research needs human guinea pigs. But the news this week of patients irreversibly damaged by a new treatment for Parkinson's disease has highlighted the risks. When is it worth it? Sophie Petit-Zeman reports.

Reality blues

You've got your degree - so what next? For many the loss of structure is a passport to depression, says Lyndsey Winship