Fruit and vegetable consumption by poorer families falls 30%, figures show
Rising food prices and recession resulting in lower income households cutting their recommended five-a-day portions
Lucy Mangan: the medicine man and me
I've never been one to reach for a pill or plaster for aches and pains. Toryboy's the opposite. Now we've got a baby. Can you guess where this is headed?
IVF clinics should be allowed to transfer two embryos, says study
Current thinking prefers single embryo transfer to avoid risk of twins, but new study concludes this is not always best
Hayley Okines: ‘There’s a lot to be positive about’
Hayley Okines has progeria, a rare condition that makes her age eight times faster than usual. At 14, she has already passed her life expectancy. The strain on her family is huge, but they somehow remain hopeful
Therapy stole my boyfriend
Elizabeth Leighton encouraged her partner to go into analysis. Five years and two babies later he still has five sessions a week. Now she feels sidelined and doesn't know where to turn…
David Servan-Schreiber: ‘He was not afraid of death’
David Servan-Schreiber was dying from a brain tumour – his last wish was to make his end a good one. Nick Duerden talks to his brother, Emile
Bidisha’s thought for the day: Caesarean sections
Bidisha: 'Natural' birth seems like a myth, so I'm delighted women are to be allowed a caesarean if they want one
Women with low-risk pregnancies ‘should have birth choices’
Research into 64,500 births in England finds similar outcomes for home, hospitals and midwife-led birth centres
Caesarean sections represent the low-point of second rate NHS care
No one has experienced pregnancy in the past two decades will have managed to escape second-rate care at some point
NHS caesarean guidelines aim to push down demand for procedure
Guidance from Nice says while no woman should be refused a caesarean, proper information will drive surgery rate down