Ignore the rightwing moaners. We don’t have 9m shirkers – they just want better work

A wild west labour market and millions of people on NHS waiting lists are responsible for the ballooning benefits bill, not idleness

Live to 120? I’d rather go for quality not quantity of life …

Staying alive longer is only worth it if the quality of life itself is valuable

Europe’s champion sitters: even the sporty Dutch are falling victim to ‘chair-use disorder’

Long hours spent at desks and sofas leads to 21,000 deaths a year in the Netherlands from cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer

Thank you, NHS England, for offering baby-loss leave. This kindness should be every employee’s right

Only about one-fifth of employers give paid leave after miscarriage, says Kat Brown, editor of No One Talks About This Stuff: 22 Stories of Almost Parenthood

‘I’m not judging you’ – midwife Juno Carey on what it’s like to work in an abortion clinic

She’s looked after teenagers, rape survivors and trafficked sex workers – and assisted at terminations while she’s been pregnant herself. Still, she wouldn’t change her job for anything.

Sweating with fear, I waited to hear the doctor’s verdict. Then the radio started playing Call Me Maybe …

I’m all for a bit of distraction in a tense medical situation, writes Nell Frizzell, but who on earth picks those tunes?

Investors are making a fortune from UK healthcare. Why is nobody holding private equity to account?

From care homes to cancer treatment, millions in taxpayer funds are being paid out of the system every year, says David Rowland, director of the Centre for Health and the Public Interest

I know I want at least one baby. But the more I learn about motherhood, the more terrifying it seems

Even supposedly ‘positive’ birth stories make my heart sink. Am I just going to have to make a leap of faith, asks Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff

The Guardian view on the privatisation of health: outsourcing will not save the NHS

Editorial: Buying care from the private sector brings short-term relief, but it won’t solve the problem of underfunding

Fat-shaming Keir Starmer was wrong, but we all judge people by their appearance

What makes us believe in people we perceive as attractive, and can we ever break the habit?