Pregnancy is a universal experience – but access to good healthcare is not

Development worker Leila de Bruyne says the first-world healthcare that saved her life is a basic human right that should be afforded to all expectant mothers

Campus confidential: the counsellors on the frontline of the student mental health crisis

The number of first-year students who disclose a mental health problem has risen five-fold in the past decade. We talk to the experts trying to help

To those who take antibiotics – the resistance crisis is not your fault

A new government campaign suggests patients are to blame for growing antimicrobial resistance. Let’s look at the real reasons, says health and science journalist Hannah Flynn

Sick children like my daughter don’t get enough information – so I made an app

When my daughter had cancer she knew nothing about hospital environments or treatment. I want to use her experience to benefit others

Why don’t I enjoy sex? You asked Google – here’s the answer

Every day millions of internet users ask Google life’s most difficult questions. Nichi Hodgson takes on one of them

‘Reality shrivels. This is your life now’: 88 days trapped in bed to save a pregnancy

The long read: Months before she was due to give birth, disaster struck for Katherine Heiny. Doctors ordered her to lie on her side in bed and not move – and gave her a 1% chance of carrying her baby to term