Board game aims to get young people talking about health issues

Zones encourages young people to work together to discuss issues and find answers to teen health topics, writes Jo Arden

A sick man ponders the etiquette of short-term illness

Dean Burnett: The appropriate response to contracting a short-term illness is becoming increasingly confusing

Maternity wards close 1,000 times a year to expectant mothers, figures show

Shortage of midwives and beds resulting in women being forced to travel up to 65 miles to other wards or to give birth at home

E-cigarettes: health revolution or fresh pack of trouble?

Smokers who want to stub out the habit are turning in their millions to electronic cigarettes. But how safe is 'vaping' from them – and does it lead to tobacco use anyhow?

G4S contract to run sexual assault referral centres damned

Campaigners criticise 'sell-off' of sensitive services to private company that bungled Olympics security contract

Pregnant women are not the only smokers – tests are not the answer

Emer O’Toole: Asking pregnant women to take breath tests is patronising and fails to take into account that smoking is society’s issue too

Alison Bigrigg obituary

Consultant gynaecologist who helped to transform sexual and reproductive health services in the UK

Let’s celebrate the miracle of birth but be honest about hard choices

Yvonne Roberts: The Turner quadruplets remind us both of the wonders of science and the need to determine our priorities

Listen to mother: time to change NHS practice on umbilical cord-cutting

Christina Patterson: Pregnant women need to feel medical staff are on their side – the nation's health suffers if people don't have faith in doctors

Cosmetic surgery crackdown is needed, says NHS medical director

Sir Bruce Keogh report warns of 'normalisation' of procedures and proposes restrictions on treatments and marketing