The net position

The psychopathology of fame and the death of Michael Hutchence

Geoff Watts considers the power of the placebo

The net position

How can doctors possibly keep in touch with all they need to know?

Darwinian medicine warns us not to wipe out depression-it may serve a purpose

Scientists want cash for answers. They shouldn't get it

A couple of years ago, this column would have been easy to write. I would have skimmed off the 0.1 per cent of the internet that was actually useful to normal people, and directed readers towards it....

It is possible to have too much breast cancer awareness

CD-Roms were supposed to be the vanguard of a multimedia revolution. Andrew Brown asks why, with a few exceptions, they seem to have flopped