Meet Mr Wong – the happiest person in America

Male, tall, Asian-American, at least 65 years old with children . . . how a New York Times/Gallup poll tracked down the embodiment of true happiness

Michelle Obama’s breastfeed plan attacked by Tea Party’s leading ladies

Rightwingers Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann scorn US first lady's effort to give tax breaks to mothers for breast pumps

Suspected illegal backstreet 'surgeons' operated on 20-year-old who complained of chest pains after buttock procedure

Yvonne Roberts: Describing a surrogate as a 'gestational carrier' is a new low in motherhood's commercialisation

Research in rats suggests that stimulating a nerve in the brain could help stop persistent ringing in the ears

Ex-US vice-president says his battery-powered heart pump is a 'wondrous device', and claims he didn't mind Darth Vader jibes

Richard Adams: Starbucks announces plans to sell bladder-bursting 'Trenta' cup size - holding almost a litre of coffee - in its US outlets

Son Ron Reagan's claim that Ronald Reagan had Alzheimer's while in office leads to war of words with half brother Michael

Professor concludes that snowboarders, though more likely to get injured, are a third less likely to die on the slopes than skiers

Amanda Marcotte: Culture warriors try to cast anti-obesity advice as bossy elitism, but the bottom line is we all know we have a big problem