Streets ahead

Britain's first hospital for sick children is marking its 150th birthday by drawing together medical notes and photographs that reveal a revolution in how young patients were treated. By Peter Day

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.