Features

Eat less, live longer

Tuesday, 14 July 2009

Calorie restrictors deliberately limit their intake of food because they believe it will extend their lifespans. Now a major scientific study seems to back up their extraordinary claims. Hugh Wilson reports

Jeremy Laurance: Ditching these operations could save the NHS a fortune

Tuesday, 7 July 2009

Medical Life

The bug with a lethal sting

Tuesday, 7 July 2009

Rob Sharp: The most deadly form of malaria is on the rise among travellers yet many fail to act to prevent it.

Kitchen cupboard remedies

Tuesday, 7 July 2009

Bananas to banish veruccas, ginger to ease muscle pain and tea for mouth ulcers – before you visit the chemist, check out the many proven remedies in your own larder. Kate Proctor reports

Hard Times 2009 Part 6: Escaping the recession

Wednesday, 1 July 2009

Expats dreamed of a better life in New Zealand, Spain and France, while Poles flocked to the UK for work. Then the downturn hit.

So what is the truth about legal highs?

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

Politicians want to ban the few mind-altering drugs that remain unrestricted. Are they safe? Do they work? Amol Rajan tries some

'I vowed to raise my nephew as my own'

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

When her sister died suddenly, Laura Pearson's three-year-old nephew joined her household overnight. She tells Nick Harding how the tragedy changed her family

Erin Norman: The neuroses of domesticity

Monday, 29 June 2009

Since the birth of my son in 2006 I have been a “stay at home mum” excepting a year working as a waitress in the evenings, and the less said of that horrendous job the better.

Paul Hodgkin: How the new economics of voice will change the NHS

Monday, 29 June 2009

The idea of rebooting healthcare has instant appeal. Switch off, wipe clean, re-start – nothing could be easier! Why didn’t we think of that before? But for anyone who has struggled to change the intractably complicated world of healthcare, the metaphor of a reboot could sound a tad simplistic. After all, human systems and organisations are constructed and mediated through relationships, not code.

The 50 Best Summer Sports Gear

Saturday, 27 June 2009

Whether you’re hitting the hills, pounding the pavement or firingup your forehand SimonUsborne has this season’s essential kit

Moments in Medicine podcast - From Eugenics to Newgenics

Friday, 26 June 2009

Hard Times 2009 Part 5: The emotional cost of recession

Wednesday, 24 June 2009

The Samaritans are in demand. So are divorce lawyers. In the fifth part of our series comparing modern Britain with Dickens’ ‘Hard Times’, Paul Vallely looks at how the recession is damaging the nation’s emotional health

Sudden impact: The facts about strokes

Tuesday, 23 June 2009

Jill Bolte-Taylor was just 37 years old when she suffered a massive stroke caused by the rupture of a blood vessel on the left side of her brain. Within hours she was semi-paralysed, having lost the ability to walk, talk, read and write.

Jeremy Laurance: Never mind the rhetoric – how do I find a good dentist?

Tuesday, 23 June 2009

Medical Life

How to beat back pain

Tuesday, 23 June 2009

Don't go rushing to your doctor, don't take to your bed for days – and do get to know your sacro-iliac joints. Dr David Delvin exposes the myths about lumbar pain and explains what really works

Oops, silly me! Does pregnancy make you stupid?

Tuesday, 23 June 2009

Expectant mother Kate Hilpern goes in search of evidence for ‘baby brain’

A Carer's Chronicle: Taking control

Tuesday, 23 June 2009

Today, we had Mum’s signing off meeting. She has been at home in her own home for three months. This is so completely marvelous it is like miracles. She is wonderful. We stoutly asserted that she would do it, but can hardly believe her progress. Despite the wheelchair, she looks like herself again and she is very definitely in control.

Mumsnet’s messageboards: A snapshot of modern family life

Monday, 22 June 2009

Angry, opinionated and often hilarious, the advice dished out daily on Mumsnet's 'Am I Being Unreasonable...?' message boards is a snapshot of modern family life – warts and all

Moments in Medicine podcast - The evolution of midwifery

Friday, 19 June 2009

Your Independent: Your letters on childhood bereavement

Thursday, 18 June 2009

Last week's interview with Sir Al Aynsley-Green, the Children's Commissioner, drew a huge and emotional response. Sir Al described how, as a 10-year-old boy, his father's death changed his life. Beginning a regular series featuring contributions from readers, here are some of your moving stories of childhood interrupted

Tom Reynolds: More Blood, Sweat and Tea

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

Few jobs are more adrenalin-fuelled than dashing from one medical emergency to another. Ambulance driver and blogger Tom Reynolds tells all

Jeremy Laurance: We should feel lucky to be so well protected from disease

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

Medical Life

Jonathan Hartman: Saying goodbye to my father

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

He was irascible, bloody-minded and as a father, less than adequate. Now he was dying. So how exactly should his only son Jonathan Hartman say farewell?

Can lack of sleep drive you mad?

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

Disturbed nights and mental illness have always been linked. Now research shows insomnia is not just a symptom, but a cause

'The patient had suffered a sudden huge and unrecoverable bleed into the brain. She would never wake up'

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

Extracts from 'More Blood, More Sweat and Another Cup of Tea'