Cuts to sexual health services will lead to STI ‘explosion’, warn experts

Labour analysis predicts £40m less will be spent on testing and treating infection in 2016 despite rates of gonorrhoea and syphilis soaring

Welsh government amends plans for e-cigarette ban

Instead of wide-ranging prohibition, Labour in Wales now seeks controversial vaping restrictions in places where there is potential risk to children

The junior doctors’ strike is off: so who won? – cartoon

After the compromise comes the spin, and even without industrial action, the government can still claim there’s chaos

Ban underfed and underage models in fashion, MPs urged

Modelling agencies defiant as parliamentary group on body image hears of girls living on just popcorn and hidden nature of eating disorders

Expect more teenage pregnancies and STIs as public health cuts kick in

Slicing money out of local prevention services is ‘economically nonsensical’, completely undermining the pledge to pump billions into the NHS

Female MPs call for breastfeeding to be allowed in House of Commons

Move may be ‘ridiculously controversial’ but it is necessary to get more women into parliament, says Labour MP Jess Phillips

Gay men need clear information about ‘chemsex’, not messages about morality

When health professionals and the media talk about gay sex as an emergency health issue, they may actually encourage risky behaviour

How the spending review should look if the government wants a happier Britain

If George Osborne set out public expenditure with national wellbeing in mind, what would policy on education, health and crime look like?

‘It was the scariest thing I’ve ever done’: the Irish women forced to travel for abortions

Every year, thousands of women come from Ireland to England for abortions – illegal at home, and punishable in Northern Ireland by life imprisonment. These are their stories

One in three gym users take drugs or supplements to lose weight – study

One in 20 use amphetamine for same purpose, survey reveals, with many feeling pressured to achieve a certain body image