‘It feels like a lost year’: the women who fear 2020 has stolen their chance of motherhood

With dating on hold, jobs lost and IVF postponed, many women fear their last chance to have a child may have disappeared. How are they coping?

I run to keep fit, but I hate it

No one would argue that running isn’t good for you, but do we really have to pretend to like it, too?

Creative therapy and shared support can help with grief after losing a child

A retreat for grieving parents provides therapeutic benefits, writes Sharon Walker, whose daughter was stillborn 22 years ago

Camilla Pang: ‘You have to acknowledge the hilarity of what it is to be human’

Prize-winning author Camilla Pang talks about her autism and ADHD diagnoses and her desire to challenge myths about neurodiversity

Museum of London asks Londoners for Covid pandemic dreams

Guardians of Sleep project working with Canadian university to compile Covid-19 dreams

Rise to the challenge: my very own bake off

For many, baking is therapeutic. But is cooking along with Bake Off really such a good idea, asks Emma Beddington

Blinking hell: how to keep tired eyes healthy during a pandemic

Are you worried your vision has grown worse this year? You’re definitely not alone. But from the 20-20-20 rule to changing the size of your text, there are simple ways to address it

When rearranging a drawer is restful: the magic of ‘pottering’

How small tasks can benefit our state of mind

‘I want to give my child the best’: the race to grow human breast milk in a lab

Thought up by a tired new mother, and now backed by Bill Gates, manufactured human milk sounds like the stuff of science fiction. But just how liberating will it be?

Seasonal rhythms within immune systems may explain infection rates – study

Study finds fluctuations in white blood cells according to time of day and season, suggesting stronger or weaker immune function