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.

Brainwashed

Mental illnesses are caused by chemical imbalances in the brain, right? Wrong, says Craig Newnes.

A healthy state of denial

Eminent American writer Michael Kinsley explains why he has spent the past eight years pretending not to have Parkinson's.