Health
Who needs parents?
When the body that regulates UK fertility treatment asks 'what are fathers for?', it is really questioning the point of parents.
What mammography misses
A breast cancer specialist questions the wisdom of the UK government’s screening programme.
What Bethany did
Is a 13-year-old surfer's recovery from a horrific shark attack a blow to therapists peddling victimhood?
Bodily harm
The UK government's Human Tissue Bill will benefit nobody.
After Shipman
Medical practice should not be reorganised in response to its only ever serial killer.
Must-reads from the past week
A New Year prescription
The government should stop trying to improve people's health by telling them how to live their lives.
Health visitors
Why the British government's crackdown on NHS 'tourists' seems to be running out of breath.
Why be paranoid about puppy fat?
spiked editor Mick Hume in The Times (London), on our unhealthy obsession with childhood obesity.
Medicine on trial
The scandal of lawyers spending millions in legal aid, on research trying to prove that MMR causes autism.
