For a diet of worms: too much hygiene can damage your health Public health campaigns have dramatically reduced exposure to infection but...
Reproductive technologies and the birth of the Human Fertilisation and Embryo Authority We will examine why infertility and its treatment are problematic...
Tribes and Diatribes: race, genes, and diseases Few human deaths are caused by inherited genetic defects, and...
Why is Africa still the poorest continent? Among 29 countries where human life expectancy is still 50...
Pandemic! Globalization and the new plagues The earliest gains in life expectancy were made by understanding...
Costing the arms race: drugs, super-bugs and the appliance of science Does the spread of multiply-resistant microbes signal the end of...