From variolation to vaccines: a short history of a medical triumph
The humble cow is encoded in one of medicine’s greatest feats
More than half of students polled report mental health slump
Loneliness, depression and anxiety in England during pandemic revealed by ONS and NUS surveys
‘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?
‘Women feel they have no option but to give birth alone’: the rise of freebirthing
As Covid infections rose, hospital felt like an increasingly dangerous place to have a baby. But is labouring without midwives or doctors the answer?
Distressed mother separated from breastfed baby for days during hospital stay
Hospital admits breaking own Covid policy as mothers like Charlotte Jones are being needlessly kept apart from their babies
Liz Hall obituary
Other lives: Psychotherapist who wrote a handbook for female survivors of sexual abuse
Lives of mothers and babies left in danger at Nottingham University hospitals trust – report
Care Quality Commission downgrades trust’s maternity services to inadequate
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
One in four Britons don’t shower every day. And the rest aren’t doing it right
Do you know the difference between a shower with a small S, a Shower with a capital S, a Sur-er and a man shower? Let me share my decades of accumulated wisdom
Climate ‘apocalypse’ fears stopping people having children – study
Survey of 600 people finds some parents regret having offspring for same reason