Billionaire philanthropist Melinda Gates has vowed to dedicate the rest of her life to improving access to contraception across the globe.

Blood donated from healthy babies’ umbilical cords is being used to treat diseases and it has also helped scientists’ further stem cell research.

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Selective mutism is extremely debilitating but it can be treated, even later in life.

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Rupert Isaacson believes an affinity for horses has transformed his autistic son. But is it too good to be true? Joanna Moorhead reports.

For many people with serious illnesses, blogging offers a way to cope and share their stories, writes Joanna Moorhead.

It’s 10am on a stiflingly hot Monday morning and I am in a delivery room with one of the unluckiest mothers on the planet. She is Dahara Laouali, and at the moment she is lying…