Marcia Angell has the first of a disturbing two-part article on the doping of America in the current issue of the New York Review of Books ...

Psychosomatic cures for ills and other kinds of magical but not 'scientific' treatment for humans' problems are highly controver...

Thomas Hardy's 1886 novel T he Mayor of Casterbridge has a complex plot. Casterbridge, imaginary Wessex village Hardy          ...

E. coli culture; Wikimedia The sad and serious outbreak of E. coli toxicity in Europe illustrates many interesting, if in this case trag...

A Nature paper, and a Nature News story about it, widely covered in the news (e.g., here ), concerns the mating patterns of 2 million ye...

The past week has seen the passing of two major advocates of assisted suicide, Dr Jack Kavorkian in the US in failing health at age 83, and...

In the does-it-or-doesn't-it department, the World Health Organisation reports on whether mobile phone use is carcinogenic (cancer-causi...