Motor neurone disease: a cruel end to a 50-year love affair

Actor Joss Ackland tells Susan Greenwood about his wife's death from motor neurone disease, and why he decided to publish her frank diaries about their life together

Middle-aged smokers at higher risk of dementia

Study finds other conditions such as high blood pressure and diabetes also increase risk of disease

Of mice and medicine: If a treatment works on rodents, will it cure us?

When we hear about caffeine reversing Alzheimer's, and other medical breakthroughs involving mice, how hopeful should we be, asks Alok Jha

Blood pressure study advises more induced births

Inducing women with high blood pressure reduces likelihood of further complications by nearly 30%

How experiments on mice are helping humans

Alok Jha on how experiments on mice are helping humans

Crackdown on sunbeds to cut cancer danger

Government review after worldwide study shows carcinogenic risk as high as tobacco

Labs say swine flu vaccine is close to clinical trials

Swine flu vaccines already developed and awaiting tests, but 'by no means' ready yet, according to World Health Organisation

Amid calls for calm, NHS gets ready to face swine flu emergency

Scientists and health experts plan for the worst while ministers aim to contain anxiety

Fewer calories may lead to longer life, say scientists

A 20-year study of monkeys shows animals on restricted diets less likely to develop age-related diseases

The lifestyle to beat Alzheimer’s

Coffee drinkers will be clinking mugs in a toast to new research, says Peta Bee