Spiralling anabolic steroid use leaves UK facing health timebomb, experts warn

Image-obsessed young males use drug to build muscle but growing health toll includes HIV infection rate equal to that of heroin users

Worrying: A Literary and Cultural History by Francis O’Gorman – review

‘Now it’s over, I can enjoy my holiday.’ It’s sometimes self-indulgent and often irrational. So why do many of us spend our lives fretting?

My Big Fat Documentary Review review – performance artist Scottee stands up for fat people

Behind the sparkly circus-camp of the Hamburger Queen beauty pageant lies an exploration of Scottee’s own feelings about his size

Diabetes is at a record high because we’re fatter than ever. But what can be done?

The ‘eat less, do more’ advice, drug regimes and surgery for patients with type 2 diabetes have thus far proved unequal to the scale of this ever-growing menace

Morning-after pill made officially available to girls under 16

A change of licence means EllaOne, which is effective five days after intercourse, can be given to any woman of reproductive age in Europe

The great NHS efficiency drive – cartoon

GP and graphic novelist Ian Williams on why ‘managing with what we’ve got’ might not be the best mantra for an effective health service

Mother loses bid to use dead daughter’s frozen eggs to give birth to grandchild

High court judge acknowledges daughter’s desire for children but rules that she had not given the required consent before she died of bowel cancer aged 28

Activity report: children not getting recommended daily exercise

Study by group ukactive finds only around half of seven-year-olds partake in hour of physical exertion each day and calls for action

David Cameron orders crackdown on summer surge of FGM cases

PM attacks ‘cruel, barbaric practice’ of female genital mutilation as ministers are told to rush through new powers to seize passports

Why my charity decided to open an online sex toy shop

The Family Planning Association is stimulating more than just a debate about how charities should work and think like entrepreneurs