Every few days, Houston businessman Richard Weissenborn receives injections of a radical new cancer drug at a hospital here. The treatment aims to check his head and neck cancers by replacing mutant genes with good copies. The treatment is still experimental in the United States, but in China, it was approved for marketing after a few years of testing. Join discussion...

Tea, toast, marmalade, Daily Telegraph... and statin. For many Britons, breakfast wouldn't be breakfast without these ingredients. And for some 3.4 million, the most important is that little pill. The worrying wonder drug Statins have been hailed as a wonder drug Last week, the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice) unveiled new guidelines stating that statins should be prescribed to people with a 20 per cent risk of developing heart disease. So we can expect them to appear on man Join discussion...