Do you need to be troubled to be a genius?

What can we learn from the Warhols, Gershwins and Lincolns?

Britons missing an hour’s sleep every night, says report

Study suggests adults slumber average of 6.8 hours and calls for national strategy to publicise importance of good sleep

My exhausting meditation retreat: 10 days of Vipassana, silence and spiders

I went to New Zealand to break my brain and put it back together, without ever having meditated before. I had no idea what I was in for

‘Damaging’ electrical fitness workouts should be regulated, say doctors

Experts warn that increasingly popular trend for whole body electrical stimulation is based on limited scientific evidence

All British women have the right to a caesarean – they’re not ‘too posh to push’

Maternity figures have again prompted stigmatising comment. The rules are clear, and British mothers must defend their hard-won freedom to choose

The ‘drugs v talking’ debate doesn’t help us understand mental health

Mental illness and how we treat it is back in the spotlight – but confusion and false distinctions create problems for both doctors and patients

How to teach … diabetes

There are lots of ways to explore the disease in class – from TED talks about sugar to an interactive game that asks students to think like a pancreas

‘I’ve been told bacon smells lovely’ – life without a sense of smell

Spring is in the air and you can’t smell a thing: no flowers, no Sunday roast, no chocolate. What’s life like for anosmics?

Post-recession Britons are healthier, better off and living greener lives

National wellbeing snapshot covering period as UK shrugged off financial crisis finds improvements in 17 of its measures

The libraries that offer sexual health services and cancer support

Coventry’s Central Library runs health-related events and a mental health drop-in service, reaching people that the NHS can’t