Tracking the pill poppers
A big contractor is trying to persuade the NHS that its future lies in tagging drugs. Michael Cross reports.
www.quitsmokingandstartexercisingbeforeitstoolate.com
Harvard can now assess your health risks via the internet.
The end of the x-ray
The old-fashioned x-ray, printed on film and displayed on a lightbox, is about to vanish. Dr Phil Hammond celebrates - and mourns - its passing.
Patient records a click away
Health and social care workers in Scotland will be able to access a patient's full medical history with a click of a button once ministers kick-start a programme of NHS modernisation.
Gates gives £100m to wipe out malaria
World's richest man tackles killer of 1 million a year.
Bad medicine
Will your drugs help or harm you? Sophie Petit-Zeman visits a new website that could put your mind at rest.
‘It’s better to be thin and dead than fat and living’
Lucy Atkins exposes the websites that celebrate anorexia and bulimia.