My top tip for middle-aged longsightedness? Buy a head torch

My teens were ruined by wearing terrible glasses. And now bad eyesight has crept up on me again

DIY drugs: should hospitals make their own medicine?

The long read: If pharmaceutical companies rapidly inflate the price of their products, is there an alternative? One Dutch chemist thinks so

My tears as a junior doctor were a ‘flaw’ that, in psychiatry, became my greatest strength

I burnt out as a GP but in mental health I could take time with patients and, at last, make a difference

Find a room of your own: top 10 tips for women who want to write

Give up wanting to be liked, live with imposter syndrome and love what you do. Suzanne Moore advises aspiring female writers

Jonathan Franzen’s right: you need to pick your battles

If your sole priority is achieving victory in a planetary-scale existential struggle, there’ll be nothing left for anything else

Rabbits may hold key to solving mystery of human female orgasm

Study suggests climax may be an evolutionary hangover – but crucial questions remain

How I curbed my helicopter parenting – and let my daughter jump through fire

A family festival, where children learn courageous feats, helped me break my over-protective habits

When my husband died, mushroom foraging helped me out of the dark

After losing all sense of hope and home, hunting in woodland with other mushroomers got me through my grief

It’s not your fault? That doesn’t mean you’re off the hook

Evading liability feels comfortable, but turns out to be a prison, while stepping up feels unpleasant, but ends up being freeing

Caesarean babies have different gut bacteria, microbiome study finds

C-section babies pick up more hospital bacteria than those born vaginally, research shows