Super green me
Alex Jamieson was the woman who helped Morgan Spurlock back to health after he ate nothing but McDonald's. Now she wants to detox the world, finds Hannah Pool.
US doctors prepare for first human face transplant
· Clinic to select patient after getting go-ahead · Critics warn of serious mental and medical risks
‘Editing’ technique can rewrite genes
Scientists at a company in California have developed a potentially revolutionary technique to permanently rewrite any gene in the human body, offering hope of a cure to many with inherited diseases.
The myth of dying
Polly Toynbee: In the cacophony of debate about insignificant things, the torture of unassisted death goes on unremarked.
Julius Axelrod
Obituary: Nobel laureate whose revolutionary biochemical researches helped to create the new pharmacology.
Death on doctor’s orders
Euthanasia campaigners are hailing Oregon's right-to-die law as a blueprint for Britain.