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Analysis: vital uses on the battlefield

Blood is an awkward commodity: hard to collect, highly perishable, prone to carry infections and tricky to transport

Don't take your tablets with fruit juice

Fruit juice can have a significant effect on the uptake of drugs, either lowering or increasing their effectiveness

Accident victim reborn as artist

Ken Walters has created his own software and has been contracted by EA games, the computer company

Folic acid 'does not prevent heart attacks'

Study suggests that taking folic acid to reduce homocysteine levels in blood is no protection against heart disease

Alexander Technique effective for back pain

Combining exercise with practising the Alexander Technique could significantly reduce back pain and improve mobility

Ten-year-olds to be tested for cholesterol

The tests aim to detect familial hypercholesterolaemia, the commonest genetic disorder among Europeans

Doctors must inform police of knife injuries

Doctors must tell police if they treat patients with knife injuries says draft guidance from the General Medical Council

Abortion study may sway those who change our laws

Do women become depressed because of an abortion, or have an abortion because they have reasons for being depressed?

Abortion does not harm mental health, says study

American findings will hinder the latest effort to make it harder for British women to obtain terminations under UK law

Snorers sent to boot camp by relatives

The country’s worst offenders will be attending a military-style camp in Birmingham designed to stamp out their annoying habit

NHS risks losing cancer drugs

The UK system is driving away the makers of new treatments, denying patients of effective drugs that are available overseas

'Chubby kids have tubby parents'

I meet at least one fat child a day in my surgery and I can guarantee that they will talk about anything apart from their weight

Fat children ‘should be taken into care’

Council chiefs threaten to get tough on parents with obese children being put on 'at risk' registers or taken into care

Red Bull gives you wings - and heart trouble?

Young people who drink just one can of the energy drink may have increased chances of heart problems, a study has found

Number of overdosing children soars

Hospital admissions of under-16s and those aged 25 to 34 for drug-related problems increased by more than half in ten years

Hospitals discriminate on diseases and funding

Hospitals are accused of age discrimination after a study found they failed to provide basic care to patients 50 and over

Women will find theory smells distinctly off

Why is money being spent on t-shirt sniffing when 100 million women have been waiting 50 years for the male pill?

Two-drug combination found to retard tumours

A treatment for brittle bones can have a dramatic effect on breast cancer when combined with chemotherapy

Pill 'skews women's taste in men'

Hormones in contraceptive alter how women perceive partner's smell and sexual attractiveness. It could end a relationship

Surgeries stay open longer amid claims of ‘duress’

More than one in three GP surgeries now open in the evenings and at weekends amid complaints that extended hours are being imposed