Tory MP who has hour-long baths claims £662 water bill on expenses

Tim Loughton’s parliamentary accounts show he has been spending up to £50 a month on Thames Water supply

What can your period tell you about the state of your health?

Bodyform’s new sanitary towel ad uses red liquid to represent period discharge – about bloody time. Making menstruation more visible in advertising – and conversation – is good for us

Why does Tory MP Tim Loughton spend an hour in the bath every morning?

The ex-minister says the shower is ‘one of the greatest sources of stress in the world’. Let’s hope he never has to face one of his own government’s disability assessments

What to do if you’re a Londoner worried about gonorrhoea? Test yourself, apparently

The bodged handover from personal consultation is a money-saving exercise – when infection rates are rising in the capital, says sex and relationship broadcaster Nichi Hodgson

As a teenage boy with anorexia I couldn’t find words to describe my mental illness

Not all silence on mental health problems is down to stigma. Sometimes it’s difficult to articulate what’s wrong

ITV’s Victoria illustrates how 19th-century sexism helped syphilis to spread

With concealment common and women expected not even to show knowledge of the disease, infection of families by men was widespread across all classes

The eyes have it: how technology allows you to speak when all you can do is blink

Developments in eye-gaze technology – which converts minute movements of the eye into spoken words – are opening up undreamed of opportunities for people with motor neurone disease

STI warning as clinics close in London and self-testing is delayed

Six long-established sexual health clinics have shut as part of a move from face-to-face consultations to online services

Can an app really provide effective birth control?

Technology that tracks women’s fertility has been hailed as being more effective than the pill – and without side-effects. Is this a genuine revolution in sexual freedom?

What you should say to somebody who has miscarried – and what you shouldn’t

Don’t offer explanations or try to ‘fix’ things, says journalist and fundraiser for miscarriage awareness Janet Murray