Being a good host is about more than just the food

Real hospitality is a life lesson in community living

How to save the NHS… by five bestselling medical memoirists

With medical memoirs now the hottest ticket in publishing, we asked five acclaimed authors for their views on the crisis in the NHS

Why is it so hard to allow mothers the kind of labour they want?

The Shrewsbury maternity scandal is in part explained by a fetish for ‘natural birth’

Foetus 18 Weeks: the greatest photograph of the 20th century?

In the 1950s, photojournalist Lennart Nilsson set out to capture the earliest stages of existence. His foetus images seized the public imagination – and sparked a controversy that has raged ever since

Sounding it out: ‘Listening to white noise put my life back on track’

Megan Nolan was searching for a way to switch off the stresses of modern life. Then she discovered white noise. Here, she charts how the flat frequencies helped her cope

‘I live on the street now’: how Americans fall into medical bankruptcy

Having health insurance is often not enough to save Americans from massive debts when serious illness strikes

First cannabis-based medicines approved for use on NHS

Charities welcome epilepsy and MS drugs but say thousands of people have been left in limbo

I’m a mental health nurse. There are no good decisions, only least bad ones

I often feel I’m letting my patients down, but I do this job because I believe in the healing power of small acts of kindness. This is what my working week looks like

We need to teach girls that sex is something to be enjoyed – not feared

Rapper TI is passing on a deeply misguided attitude to sex, says author Flo Perry

Lizzo: lack of body positivity in media took toll on mental health

Truth Hurts singer says negative and stereotypical images affected her as a child