Home births ‘a risk to babies’
Women who give birth at home may be putting their babies' lives in danger, the Government's health watchdog is set to warn. For the first time, doctors and midwives will be ordered to tell women that giving birth in their own homes could be riskier than in hospital

Thousands lie to IVF clinics in desperation to have a baby
Nearly half of British fertility clinics are being duped into treating patients using false identities, it has been claimed. In 1997, Liz Buttle, 60, gave birth to a son after claiming to be 49. Despite this high-profile case, one in four clinics never checks a patients' identity

In the Forum - Dealing with Cravings
Back in the day, I was a junk food queen. Taco Bell was my home away from home and Doritoes...well, let's just say I single-handedly kept Frito-Lay in business....

The Crisis in Black America
At home: AIDS now threatens tens of thousands of African-Americans, many of them women, in big cities and small towns alike. A community in peril tries to save itself.

Scandal of dead bodies left on hospital ward in funding crisis
Dead bodies are being left on hospital wards overnight because of a shortage of night porters to move them to a mortuary, it has emerged. Nurses at a hospital in Lancashire have been told dead patients cannot be moved until the following day because of a funding crisis