FGM: healthcare professionals have a duty to protect girls
It is compulsory for regulated health professionals to inform the police every time a girl under 18 says she has had female genital mutilation
The threat to the Margaret Pyke Centre is a threat to women’s equality
A vital and ‘outstanding’ sexual health centre faces closure. This scandal shows how the life-saving, health and social benefits of birth control are taken for granted
If only more men could express emotion like Professor Green
Talking about his dad’s suicide moved the rapper to tears. But too many of us still think it’s not manly to talk about feelings – and the consequences can be deadly
Yes, you can crawl out of your first-year depression at university
University may well be a petri dish of potential suffering, but by seeking help from the counselling service and escaping the student bubble, you can get through it
Mindfulness at risk of being ‘turned into a free market commodity’
Warnings delivered at lack of regulations within an ‘increasingly professionalised domain’
Can Professor Green teach men to talk about suicide?
The British rapper’s BBC3 documentary explores his father’s death and discusses how men need to talk about their feelings to reduce the high rate of suicide
One in three gym users take drugs or supplements to lose weight – study
One in 20 use amphetamine for same purpose, survey reveals, with many feeling pressured to achieve a certain body image
When is saving a life ‘too much medicine’? This is a lifelong test for doctors
Doctors do, and should, agonise over every death or near miss, even when death is welcome. It makes them better at caring for the living
The day we learned our son had a cleft lip
One father tells of his family’s soul-searching in the face of conflicting medical advice, and travels to Kerala in India to see how a charity is changing the fortunes of thousands of children
Memory Star: the happy app that’s not for sharing
Sussex teenagers create ‘a virtual memory jar’ to beat the stress and pressure of social media