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

British breast cancer rates ‘four times higher than eastern Africa’, says report

World Cancer Research Fund survey cites lifestyle as reason for difference

Men off the hook with HIV gel

Paul McNally: A new gel designed to help prevent the spread of HIV may be used to pander to male irresponsibility over safe sex

Japan’s women toast their own health as life expectancy rises again

Now living to an average of 86.4, Japanese women say longevity down to a fishy diet, exercise and sleep. And sake

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

Buzz from kombucha health drink is probably the alcohol, say US inspectors

Fashionable organic drink suspected of having up to 3% alcohol content and of setting off Lindsay Lohan's alcohol monitor

Stand up to Unilever’s hypocrisy over skin-lightening

Layla Sayeed: Unilever's backing of whiter beauty in India while its Dove brand urges self-esteem makes me ashamed to work in advertising

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

Young patients turn to blogs to make cancer public

Three young people explain how writing a blog helps them explore their feelings about what it's like to live with the disease