All by myself: is loneliness bad for you?
He's happily married, but Will Storr want to be alone – all the time. Is this healthy?
Life without sugar: one family’s 30-day challenge
Sugar is now at the centre of the battleground between food and health. How easy would it be to cut it out of your diet? Louise Carpenter finds out
My brother’s brain surgery brought us back together
You don't expect to look after an adult sibling, but that's what Alex Shearer had to do when his brother got a brain tumour
Four women given pioneering womb transplants impregnated via IVF
Swedish medical team hoping for world first as women born without uterus or who lost it to cancer get embryo transfers
Should men have children earlier in life?
Research has linked fathers over 45 to having children with an increased risk of autism, substance abuse and low academic achievement. So should men have babies earlier? Dr Dillner reports
Children of older men at greater risk of mental illness, study suggests
Research finds children born to fathers aged over 45 were more likely to have mental health problems and do poorly at school
Should you argue in front of the kids?
A study has shown a link between family discord and a reduction in the volume of grey matter in the brain. Dr Dillner reports
What is the effect of pro-life pregnancy advice centres?
They pretend to offer impartial help, but what kind of harm do these unregulated centres have on vulnerable young women, asks Eva Wiseman
Female refugees from Syria ‘blighted by gynaecological illness and stress’
Study of women who have fled to Lebanon criticises serious lack of antenatal and general health care
Birth weight is strongly affected by the mother’s own diet as a child
A pregnant woman's diet may have much less effect on her baby's health than what she ate in her own childhood