Is anybody out there?
More and more of our children are being diagnosed as autistic, though experts cannot agree on why it is happening. Are we getting better at spotting the signs earlier - or on the brink of an epidemic?
Where there’s mucus…there’s brass.
John Sutherland on why drug companies love the hay fever season.
Swallowing the company line
It's time we had proper, open trials on the Prozac family of antidepressants.
How to make a genius
The Medical Research Council's lab is a world leader. So what's its secret? By Lee Elliot Major
Butt out
Theodore Dalrymple on why hospitals are wrong to stop patients smoking
Want to live to be 100?
The islanders of Okinawa live longer than anyone else on the planet. And they stay fit, active and happy long into old age. Now a new book reveals their secrets. Emily Wilson reports.
Laura was killed by anorexia. She was 80
Her granddaughter India Faulkner-Wiley on a condition that is just as likely to affect the elderly as the young.
The fright of your life
Spiders, snakes, premature burial - Harriet Stewart faces our worst fears with Phobias: Fighting the Fear by Helen Saul and Buried Alive: The Terrifying History of Our Most Primal Fear by Jan Bondeson
Mind the bollocks
Testicular cancer is the commonest form of the disease in young men. When did you last check yours, asks Angela Neustatter