Fears for new mothers and babies as support services are cut across England

Breastfeeding classes, midwife visits and peer support are increasingly being scaled backed or stopped, threatening health and wellbeing of new familes

David Cameron orders crackdown on summer surge of FGM cases

PM attacks ‘cruel, barbaric practice’ of female genital mutilation as ministers are told to rush through new powers to seize passports

Thousands sign petition calling for ban on children’s ear piercings

Labour MP Mark Tami has said he will raise the issue in parliament after 38 Degrees petition garners over 28,000 signatures

We must fight to make our cities healthy places to live

Cutting back on parks, cycling infrastructure and leisure budgets will prove to be a false economy. There are huge financial benefits to having a healthy populace

Andy Burnham assured Prince Charles over complementary medicine plan

Then health secretary told prince in 2009 he was keen to move forward on study about integrating complementary medicine with standard healthcare

GP appointments are hard to get, say third of NHS patients in England

Difficulty seeing same doctor, booking online or obtaining evening appointments casts doubt on David Cameron’s aim of 8am-8pm seven-day GP access

The battle against childhood obesity has to start in pregnancy

Britain’s childhood obesity rate is, as Jeremy Hunt calls it, a scandal, but there has not been enough recognition of how early the problem begins

Almost one in four deaths ‘avoidable with lifestyle and healthcare changes’

ONS study shows 23% of deaths in England and Wales in 2013 were amenable to treatment or could have been prevented through public health measures

Give me an easy-going ‘dad bod’ any day

Save me from conceited, narcissistic men rushing to judgment on others. Give me someone comfortable in their own skin

Prince Charles’s ‘black spider memos’ show lobbying at highest political level

Publication of 27 letters after 10-year legal battle shows heir to the throne petitioning ministers on subjects from the Iraq war to alternative therapies