Years of pain, but no diagnosis: one woman’s experience of endometriosis

Katie Beales suffered crippling monthly pain from the age of 14, but doctor after doctor failed to recognise a disease that impacts up to one in 10 women

‘Listen to women’: UK doctors issued with first guidance on endometriosis

Disease, which causes crippling pain and can lead to infertility, affects 176 million women worldwide and currently takes seven to eight years to diagnose

Pelvic mesh victims disgusted at suggestion of anal sex as solution

‘Only a misogynist could think this way,’ says Australian woman in response to her doctor’s solution to painful intercourse

UK medicines agency seizes HIV home-test kits over false result risk

More than 100 Hightop kits, which have not met EU regulations, seized as agency warns consumers against using them

Bollywood’s hot new topics: open toilets, menstrual hygiene and erectile dysfunction

Forget all those swirling songs and plots about love, heartache and family values. Bollywood has more pressing concerns

The Guardian view on vaginal mesh implants: trust data and patients

Editorial: The devices have benefited a large number of women – but thousands have suffered serious adverse effects

The Archers – giving stealth sexual health advice for the over-50s

The soap opera’s latest frank storyline featuring a character visiting an STI clinic has caused a stir. But it’s a rare and helpful reminder that sexual health isn’t just for the young

Wax on, wax ouch: pubic grooming has a high injury rate, survey reveals

A quarter of those who groom their pubic hair have suffered mishaps from cuts to burns and rashes – some requiring medical help – researchers have found

Sexual health shake-up in south-west London unsafe, experts say

Cost-cutting plans in three boroughs will lead to more STIs, HIV and unintended pregnancies, senior doctors warn

‘Scandal’ of vaginal mesh removal rates revealed by NHS records

Traumatic complications mean one in 15 women fitted with the most common type of mesh support will require surgery to extract it, figures suggest