FGM affects females in every local authority in England and Wales – study

Highest prevalence of women and girls affected by genital mutilation is in London, according to research which will increase pressure to tackle the issue

Introducing ‘treeconomics’: how street trees can save our cities

As a fight over 11 lime trees in Sheffield escalates, activists in cities all over the world are making the case for urban trees – to cut pollution, increase land value and even make you feel younger

How many people should watch you give birth? The crowdbirthing conundrum

Women in their teens and 20s have an average of eight people in the room during the course of giving birth, a survey suggests – it might work for some, but there are a few key questions to consider

Health workers urged to increase help for anabolic steroid users

Public Health England advises councils and health practitioners to engage more effectively with young men abusing image-enhancing drugs

Don’t call believers in homeopathy idiots – it will push them further from science

Those attacking Jeremy Corbyn for supporting the NHS provision of homeopathy are helping to entrench the perceived elitism of mainstream medicine

Caroline Lucas renews attempt to make PSHE compulsory in schools

Green party MP tables bill to require personal, social and health education for pupils in England and Wales, after similar bill last year failed to progress

Government delays publication of plans for reduction in UK’s sugar intake

Ministers accused of ‘deplorable complacency’ in tackling UK’s obesity problem after report they commissioned from Public Health England is shelved

Doctors demand a 20% tax on sugary drinks to fight UK obesity epidemic

BMA report says use money to subsidies fruit and vegetables, and demands regulatory action from taxation to clampdown on marketing to children

Public health cuts could cost NHS extra and cause more unplanned pregnancies

Experts say £200m spending reduction could saddle NHS with extra £250m on abortion and maternity services after government ignored calls to reconsider

FGM awareness web app launched to inform girls at risk

Petals, developed with the help of Coventry schoolchildren, aims to give teenagers facts about female genital mutilation without detection