Does reading make your kids short-sighted?

Luisa Dillner: Reading and writing may play more of a part than we thought in the onset of short-sightedness. How can you manage the risk?

Concern over delays to treatment of babies suffering from tongue-tie

NHS waiting times can be as much as 84 days to rectify condition that can prevent newborns from breastfeeding

Can I afford a four-day week?

Impacts on child benefit, tax, car insurance or rail fares mean that working part time can bring greater contentment without financial misery

Home-birthing pools recalled after baby falls ill with legionnaires’ disease

NHS and Public Health England ban certain types of heated pool and question suppliers over safety precautions

Need to get children outdoors? How to escape those iPad screens

Many parents want their children to stop staring at computers and get some exercise. One mother, Emily Barr, investigates ways to motivate them

FGM specialist calls for gynaecological checks for all girls in Sweden

Anissa Mohammed Hassan, who co-led an education pilot in Norrköping, calls for genital examinations for all girls aged six

End this sugar rush – it’s the only way to tackle the obesity crisis

Simon Capewell: Attempts to reduce sugar content in food and drinks have failed in the face of Big Food. Legislation is now necessary

UK religious leaders unite against FGM

Groups sign 'landmark' declaration making clear female genital mutilation is not supported by religious doctrine

What happens when England play? Sex, heart attacks and violence

Regardless of whether England beat Uruguay or not, we can guarantee that this World Cup will see a rise in A&E admissions and pregnancies – and a possible fall on the stock market, says Leo Benedictus

Should all British schoolchildren get free milk?

Head to head: Anne Karpf and Agnès Poirier debate whether David Cameron should have reinstated the free school milk that Margaret Thatcher took away