Life & Society: Health

Put a little spice in your box

Viagra can now be bought over the counter at Boots. But hold on – look east and you will find far better, natural remedies for “exhausted passion”. Ziauddin Sardar offers a user’s guide

A garden of smoking pollen

After falling from her horse, the author suffered concussion – and suddenly the world became a place of strange wonder

Mosquitoes bite back

Observations on malaria

You’re not the boss of me

At my local pub, I am reminded that Britain is becoming
a vast public urinal monitored by cameras

The masses smell blood

. . . on the Gurkhas, Gordon Brown’s tin ear, and penalty shoot-outs

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Mind bending

Observations on networking

Christianity and the Petri dish

The Church of Scotland stance on stem cell research has proved religious conviction and scientific discovery needn't always be antagonists, argues Murdo Macdonald

Voice

Victoria Brignell on Chelmsford, the power of radio and a particularly limiting aspect of her disability

Pandemic’s progress: we saw it coming

Be in no doubt, people in Britain will die from Mexican swine flu and there will be several million victims worldwide. But this is not a repeat of the 1918 pandemic, writes the leading research scientist and NS contributing editor

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Now there’s a brainy idea