Your vitamins explained
What is the traditional advice on the benefits and sources of each vitamin?
The diet that can treat epilepsy
Giving drugs to children with epilepsy is often ineffective and can have terrible side-effects. But there is an alternative - a high-fat food plan that dramatically reduces seizures, writes Sarah Spendiff
Researchers link growth spurt in early childhood to obesity
Scientists find link between rapid growth as a baby and the long-term rise in a person's metabolism
My life as a guinea pig
Medical researchers have tracked David Ward since his birth in 1946. The findings shed fascinating light on the impact of childhood on health in later years
New therapy helps boost immune system of HIV patients
Growth hormone injections double number of immune cells in HIV patients
Life in mono
From Bach to Led Zeppelin, music has always had a powerful emotional pull for critic Nick Coleman. But since he lost hearing in one ear, listening is agony and his favourite artists no longer move him. Will the magic ever return?
Why are some moviegoers fleeing from Cloverfield?
The monster-trashes-New-York film, produced by Lost creator JJ Abrams, is causing motion sickness and migraine in some viewers
Key to longer life may lie in keeping fit from the age of 70, says study
Scientists home in on secrets of longevity in study of thousands of pensioners who live to 90 and beyond
British study finds genetic link to child obesity
A study of more than 5,000 pairs of twins has found that a child's risk of becoming overweight is mostly down to nature, not nurture
Detailed gene map will lift lid on diseases
An ambitious project to create the most detailed picture of human genetic variation yet has been launched by British and American scientists