Cancer risk casts doubt over future of HRT

We must 'seriously question' whether hormone-replacement therapy has role in modern medicine, says expert

Colour blindness breakthrough in gene therapy experiment

Scientists cure colour-blind monkeys, raising hopes of a cure for a range of genetic eye disorders in humans

Health warning: exercise makes you fat?

Ben Goldacre: The Sunday Telegraph says re-programming body fat is the key to weight loss, not working out

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