From snowmageddon to snoverkill

Things go from bad to worse as the snow and woe piles up around the District of Columbia

Think tennis for yes, home for no: how doctors helped man in vegetative state

• Brain-injured patient's thoughts 'read' by scanner• Technique provides hope for others in similar state

French hit back after British attack on G-spot touches nerve

After scientists in London declared the G-spot may be a myth, gynaecologists gather in Paris to launch counter-attack

Mixing a Super Bowl of manipulation

Melissa McEwan: An anti-abortion ad, to be shown to millions during American sports' prime time, hinges upon a deliberate distortion

Male prostitution comes to Nevada

Tracy Quan: A licensed brothel's decision to introduce male prostitutes for women is controversial – but it shouldn't be

Women’s right to choose was not meant to be about Botox

Libby Brooks: The era of perfectability has seen feminist calls for autonomy distorted into a row about rights to self-mutilate the body

Ageing fitness fans take over Japan’s parks

Exercise boom among over-65s as country battles rising welfare bill of older population

I don’t need a war to fight my cancer. I need empowering as a patient

Mike Marqusee: Using the martial metaphor for something as complex as cancer makes the disease ripe for political and financial exploitation

Stem cell treatment restores sight to partially blind man

Stem cells grown on a special membrane were used to treat the man who lost sight in one eye after being squirted with ammonia

First cancer genome sequences reveal how mutations lead to disease

Scientists sequence genomes of cancer cells for first time, revealing pattern of mutations that could eventually be used to tailor treatments to particular patients