Healthcare reform: dead on arrival?
Merrill Goozner: Obama hasn't even taken office, but US drug companies are already starting their campaign against healthcare reform
Scenes of a sexual nature
Abigail Jones: Teenagers may see a lot of nooky on popular TV programmes, but they should still learn about safe sex from their parents
Rebalancing the scales of justice
Simon Lazarus and Ian Millhiser: Barack Obama must stop the supreme court from providing immunity to health insurers and other corporate law-breakers
May the workforce be with you
Sasha Abramsky: Why should Obama bother wooing union leaders and their members? Without them, his plans for social reform won't work
Study finds new link between childhood obesity and heart disease
Research shows that neck arteries of obese children were similar to those of a 45-year-old
Speaking out on autism
Since its beginnings in 2005, Autism Speaks has raised $30m in funding for autism research in the US
Pandemics: Google takes on real viruses
Search giant to fund research aimed at detecting and preventing virulent new diseases
Googling is good for the ageing brain
Research suggests that spending time searching the web may stimulate the brain of elderly people more than reading a book
How to die ‘the Oregon way’
For more than 10 years, assisted suicides have been legal in Oregon. Katharine Whitehorn visits the US state that believes in death with dignity
Give it a twirl
The retro art of hula hooping is making a comeback. And no wonder, says Lucy Atkins: as well as being a lot of fun, it will tone your body in all the right places