Making babies is beginning to look as difficult for men as it always has been for women

The sperm count of men in the west has halved in 40 years. Changing lifestyles won’t help. The problem is an environmental one

Want to improve public services? We need a sleep revolution

Doctors, nurses and social workers are among those facing long night shifts which inevitability lead to lack of sleep

Sperm counts among western men have halved in last 40 years – study

Reasons for the ‘shocking’ drop are unclear, say researchers, and represent a huge and neglected area of public health

Good for the rich, bad for the poor: Trump’s healthcare plan is a lot like his tax plan

Republicans believe a health savings account will benefit many Americans. But what applies to big-screen TVs doesn’t apply to cardiac surgery

Morning-after pill apology is hard to swallow

Boots has said sorry in the row over its emergency pill, but its comments reveal how women are still judged on contraception and sex

‘It’s too expensive’: your views on the morning-after pill in the UK

Boots has refused to reduce the price of emergency contraception, despite campaigners persuading other pharmacies to drop the cost

Prurience review – come and join the self-help group for porn addicts

It’s hard to know who is acting and who is oversharing in a show that explores our personal experience of pornography – and tests the limits of theatre

Our public health guardians have been asleep at the wheel as vaginal mesh tragedy unfolds

We diminish the tragedy by characterising the cases as unrepresentative of typical outcomes, but we must admit our current system has failed us

HPV vaccine: anger over decision not to extend NHS scheme to boys

Health bodies condemn panel’s conclusion that more jabs against cancer-causing infection are unlikely to be cost-effective

Arts can help recovery from illness and keep people well, report says

All-party inquiry demonstrates benefits to health and wellbeing of the arts, leading to fall in hospital admissions