Twins raise risk of postnatal depression
Birth association survey shows mothers of more than one baby almost twice as likely to suffer mentally
Adultish giggling
Rebecca Front: Bring on sex education at primary school, if it leads to parents who can say penis with a straight face
A cure for hysteria over cancer jab
Joan Smith: The publicity surrounding Jade Goody's illness and death has helped balance scare stories over a cervical cancer vaccine
Pre-watershed condom ads are counsel of despair
Michael White: There are better ways of reducing Britain's shocking teenage pregnancy rate than contraceptive messages at teatime
Cadbury and Mars ‘break promises’ on additives
As Easter is a movable feast, so too is the timing of the food industry's commitment to stop using azo dyes derived from tar and linked to hyperactivity and cancer
The middle-class myth of healthy eating
Children from all socio-economic backgrounds are suffering the effects of an unhealthy diet. Are we doing enough?
Running on empty carbs
They finish their cereal and snack on nuts and fruit juice. So, how could they possibly get fat? Andrew Purvis on the middle-class myth of healthy-eating
Children being failed by health system, says head of watchdog
From knife crime to hospital care, young people still put at risk, according to outgoing head of Healthcare Commission
Is the health system failing children?
Teenager, Katrina Mather, and mother, Brenda Rex, talk about the failings within the health service
Was she right to write about it?
Open thread: Julie Myerson's memoir about her now-estranged son's cannabis use has caused a furore. What do you make of it?