Pill for chest pains ‘could save 10,000 lives a year’

£10-a-week ivabradine, also known as Procoralan, cut patients' risk of death from heart failure by 26% over two-year trial

Are you ready for a world without antibiotics?

Antibiotics are a bedrock of modern medicine. But in the very near future, we're going to have to learn to live without them once again. And it's going to get nasty

Heart attacks linked to cold weather, study claims

Very cold temperatures thought to affect heart by increasing blood pressure and chances of blood clotting

Bottoms bring up the rear in suntan time trials

Study shows some body parts are more sensitive to the sun's damaging effects than others

Sniffing device allows paralysed woman to communicate

The woman used the revolutionary device, which is controlled by sniffing, to write a letter to her children

Don’t let the phoney melanoma scare keep you out of the sun

Response: There are many good reasons why we won't – and shouldn't – give up our tan, says Sam Shuster

My favourite medical graphic novels

Cian O'Luanaigh lists the best – though often harrowing – medical comics and graphic novels

Forget homeopathy, doctors need to make up their minds about placebos

Doctors have made their views about homeopathy clear, but their position on whether placebos should be knowingly prescribed is distinctly vague

EEG test may help predict who will develop schizophrenia, claims scientist

Information from an EEG test could allow doctors to identify people at high risk of a mental disorder. They could then be treated pre-emptively

Pregnant women who drink alcohol may reduce the sperm count of sons

Expecting mothers who consumed more than 4.5 alcoholic drinks a week were more likely to have sons with lower sperm counts