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A team of comic-book superheroes, above, is to be used to help children to understand diseases affecting them or their parents and to reduce fear surrounding treatment and side-effects (Sam Lister writes).

The project, called Medikidz, will provide a range of comic books explaining diseases that affect children, such as leukaemia, scoliosis, asthma and epilepsy as well as those prevalent in adults, such as breast cancer and depression.

The superheroes include characters based on the cardiovascular and gastrointestinal systems, the lungs, brain and skin, and take the reader on an adventure through the body, explaining various conditions and the associated treatments. The project will be launched at the Evelina Children's Hospital at St Thomas' Hospital, London, on Wednesday.

The comics have been set up by Kim Chilman-Blair and Kate James, two junior doctors frustrated by a lack of child-friendly information.

The books, which are designed by a former Marvel comic book writer, are subject to clinical peer review by paediatricians and specialist nurses. Backers include Jacqueline Wilson, the children's author, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

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