Texting and driving don’t mix

Maura Kelly: Using your mobile while driving can be as dangerous as drinking alcohol. We should ban phones behind the wheel

Swine flu death of New York teacher

11 schools closed after hundreds of students taken ill

DD Guttenplan: A US ad campaign describes the perils of 'government-run healthcare in Britain', but I thank my lucky stars for the NHS

Sady Doyle: On behalf of the people of America, I'd like to apologise for Seth Rogen's miserably unfunny comedy Observe & Report

Tanya Huntington Hyde: Mexico City's residents have long expected the apocalypse. But no one expected swine flu

Melissa Ditmore: Nevada's innovative $5-a-time sex tax would have given something back to the state's prostitutes

Kent Miller: The idea that vaccines cause autism distracts from the US healthcare system's failure to care for people with the disease

Maggie Mahar: At yesterday's White House summit, the new president got a taste of the bitter health-reform battles that lie ahead

Biomedical engineer and his colleagues developed a method of peering into a cell's inner architecture

Marianne Kirby: A new study reveals weight gain can be caused by a virus. It's unscientific, but yet again, the media has swallowed it whole