Science, Health and Saving Things

Earlier this month, a selection of the world’s most famous pop stars gathered in Edinburgh for the MTV Europe Music Awards, the usual three-hour love-in with Justin Timberlake, Christina …

So a man goes to the doctor, and the doctor tells him there is bad news. In fact, there is bad news and really bad news. Which does he want first?

It started with looking at the tanned girls in magazines. Or it started in Skegness. Or it began when she was in Greece for a fortnight when she was 16. For Rachel Solway, who is now 30, it …

What is it about the heart and pop songs? Owner of a lonely heart. Everybody’s got a hungry heart. Looking for the heart of Saturday night. The seminal Half Man Half Biscuit song ‘I Left My …

It is hard to say precisely how many lives Sir Richard Doll has saved in his career, but a million may be considered a conservative estimate. The true figure probably lies in the steel filing cabinets …

There are several ways a middle-aged man may find he has a problem with his prostate gland – difficulty in peeing, getting up a lot in the night – but the way Tony Elliott found out was rather …