Is this the future of medicine?
Christopher Reeve believed it was. Ian Sample looks at the brave new world of stem cell research.
Junket time in Munich for the medical profession – and it’s all on the drug firms
How 'opinion leaders' among doctors are won over by cash on offer from the giants of the pharmaceutical trade.
Get the ow factor
Why can some people tolerate far more pain than others? Emma Young investigates
Miracle worker
Divine intervention or placebo effect? Laura Spinney talks to the live-in doctor at Lourdes
Visionary or fortune teller? Why scientists find diagnoses of ‘x-ray’ girl hard to stomach
Natasha's claim to see inner ills excites media but fails experts' test.
‘We just had to act over Aids’
Activists are quick to attack big drug companies, but Hank McKinnell, the Pfizer boss, says he is doing what he can to fight HIV. Sarah Boseley asks if that is true.
Dyslexia has a language barrier
Readers of Chinese use different parts of the brain from readers of English, write Brian Butterworth and Joey Tang.