Can Graphic Design Save Your Life? review – thrills, pills and big pharma

This hard-hitting exhibition explores the impact of graphic design in health and pharmaceuticals as companies seek to educate, save lives, and sell their wares

Be your own therapist? Fine – if you’re up to the job

We should be wary of any suggestion that self-help could replace therapy, writes Mark Brown

UK medicines agency seizes HIV home-test kits over false result risk

More than 100 Hightop kits, which have not met EU regulations, seized as agency warns consumers against using them

UK families could get money off shopping bills if they hit exercise goals

NHS ‘healthy towns’ scheme could offer rewards such as free cinema tickets in attempt to reduce lifestyle-related illnesses

NHS maternity wards in England forced to close 382 times last year

Figures obtained by Labour reveal ‘appalling’ treatment of women, largely due to staff shortages and lack of beds and cots

Government cuts ‘leave sexual health services at tipping point’

With demand rising, councils say patients face longer waits to see a specialist and efforts to tackle outbreaks could be hit

Cheers! Drinking’s good for us again – but can the medical hype be trusted?

Blind faith in scientific health claims – and headlines – can be dangerous, especially given the growing menace of online self-diagnosis, writes Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Yoga in the office? Firms should help us stay well, says public health chief

Yoga clubs, ‘walking meetings’ and standing desks are among the strategies small and medium-sized companies should adopt, according to Duncan Selbie

Our public health guardians have been asleep at the wheel as vaginal mesh tragedy unfolds

We diminish the tragedy by characterising the cases as unrepresentative of typical outcomes, but we must admit our current system has failed us

Senior doctors call for public inquiry into use of vaginal mesh surgery in UK

Experts draw comparisons with the thalidomide scandal as they reveal that traumatic complications are more common than official figures suggest