A pox on vaccines
Parents who refuse to have children immunised are regarded as dangerous cranks - in defiance of the facts.
To the last breath
Stephen Forber was the man who would not say die. When his beloved daughter Rachel fell victim to CJD, he scoured the internet for help and flew her to America to try an experimental treatment. For a while she even seemed to stage a miraculous recovery, but then the drugs failed and four weeks later she was dead. He tells Emma Brockes why he's still fighting.
Wider use of aspirin urged to save more lives
Aspirin could help save a further 3,000 lives in Britain each year - 40,000 worldwide - if it was more widely used to combat disease in patients at higher risk of heart attacks and strokes, researchers said last night.
An everyday tragedy
With the steep decline in infant mortality over the past century, we have become complacent about pregnancy and childbirth. But the harsh truth, says Joanna Moorhead, is that babies still die.
Caspar’s nightmare
Rebecca Marling Barrie on how a single hazelnut almost killed her son, and the over-the-counter remedy that could have spared them a day of horror.