The Chinese way
Five thousand ways to a better quality of life.
Not just a bunch of plant extracts
Traditional Chinese medicine is largely shunned by western doctors. Not for much longer, reports Alok Jha.
Extra funding channelled into disease treatment
Extra money for medical research unveiled in the budget will be used to improve treatments for Alzheimer's disease, strokes, diabetes and mental illness and new medicines for children, the health secretary said today.
DNA analysis will cut breast chemotherapy
Microarray allows personalised cancer treatment.
The riddle of the drug regulators
Critics press for review of licensing system.
I was not a lab rat
A new book has rekindled old rumours that renowned psychologist BF Skinner used his baby daughter in his experiments. Stop this rubbish about me and my dad, says Deborah Skinner Buzan.
Let’s look at those tests again
Vivienne Parry finds that even classic medical research can be based on a one size fits all attitude, as scientists challenge landmark heart study.
All you need is status
What others think of us is a matter of life and death, writes Alain de Botton.