I'm outraged by the Catholic school which has banned girls having cervical cancer jabs over the fears it might 'promote sexual promiscuity'.

I am 24 weeks pregnant and I'm worried about chickenpox, as my three-year-old son has been exposed to it at his nursery. Is there any chance that the baby will be infected or damaged by chickenpox?

Go-ahead for programme to give girls HPV vaccine, despite concerns it would be 'a licence for promiscuity'

The delicate hair cells of the inner ear that are crucial to hearing have been grown successfully in mice for the first time by scientists who believe that the technique may one day be used to restore hearing in profoundly deaf people.

As consecutive shots go in Open Championships at Royal Birkdale, Justin Rose's last in 1998 and his first yesterday could hardly have been more different. On a balmy Sunday afternoon 10 years ago, Rose, then an unworldly amateur aged 17, pitched into the 18th hole to finish tied for fourth. At just before 7.45am yesterday, in a mighty wind and relentless rain, the wiser Rose, with seven professional victories and a European Order of Merit under his belt, struck an unconvincing two-iron off the first tee and watched it dribble into the first cut of rough, right of the fairway.

100-year-old women giving birth; IVF cycles available for £50; gestation in artificial wombs... it will all be possible in the next 30 years, say the world's leading fertility experts

Abortions will remain legal for up to 24 weeks into pregnancy after MPs rejected a series of attempts to cut the limit after an impassioned debate in the House of Commons.

Can your diet really determine the sex of your child? Scientists this week declared that first-time mothers who consume more calories around the time of conception are more likely to give birth to boys. The theories surrounding gender selection are as outlandish as they are numerous. So what should we believe?

The body of the murdered teenager Scarlett Keeling was returned to Britain with her uterus, kidneys and stomach missing.

A new form of cloning has been developed that is easier to carry out than the technique used to create Dolly the sheep, raising fears that it may one day be used on human embryos to produce "designer" babies.

David Attenborough pays homage to the original naturalists in his latest show. They had some wild ideas, says Sophie Morris

To mark the approach of Valentine's Day, Jerry Hall asked some of her famous friends to share their thoughts about different kinds of love, from the romantic to the spiritual. Their answers make remarkably heart-warming reading

Acupuncture may offer a cheap, safe and efficient way of boosting success rates in fertility treatment, researchers have found.