Leave it out: are food intolerances fact or fad?
Serious food allergies are rare, while intolerance of many common foods is increasing. Are we in the midst of a health craze or something more complicated?
Introducing ‘treeconomics’: how street trees can save our cities
As a fight over 11 lime trees in Sheffield escalates, activists in cities all over the world are making the case for urban trees – to cut pollution, increase land value and even make you feel younger
My 16-year-old daughter is convinced she needs a sex change
She has low self-esteem and mental health problems – I think this is yet another form of self-harming. Annalisa Barbieri advises a reader
Being teetotal is intoxicating: giving up alcohol gave me back my life
Four years after my last alcoholic drink I’m no longer the loud party animal, but without regrets and blackouts I like myself much better
Don’t judge the Beckhams. Dummy or breast, small children need comforting
The Beckhams’ use of a dummy for four-year-old Harper has caused a stir. But I breastfeed my children to a similar age, despite what others think
Fake It ‘Til You Make It at Edinburgh festival review – divides audience into smilers and sobbers
Bryony Kimmings and Tim Grayburn strike a clever balance between humour and pathos as they recount the latter’s struggle to face his clinical depression
Bryony Kimmings: ‘Right now, our men are struggling’
She’s known as a feminist activist, but when the performance artist witnessed her boyfriend’s depression, she enlisted his help for Fake It ’Til You Make It, which tackles male mental health in her trademark goofball way
The truth about stress in the NHS – cartoon
GP and graphic novelist Ian Williams on the impact of high pressure working conditions on the health system
Dr Now: the smartphone app that puts you in touch with a GP – for a fee
New rash of apps exploit gaps in overstretched NHS by offering subscribers virtual consultation with a GP
Naked at Lunch review – the funny thing about nudism
Mark Haskell Smith’s undercover view of nudism is both thoughtful and hilarious