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.