Còsagach: is the Scottish hygge more about wet moss than warm blankets?

VisitScotland’s rebranding of the word baffles Gaelic speakers, who say it refers to a damp hole inhabited by small creatures

Offer cash incentives to mothers to promote breastfeeding – study

Trial offering shopping vouchers to 10,000 mothers in northern England resulted in significant rise in breastfeeding levels

David Davis’s ignorance: now that’s what I call health and safety madness

Austerity has already driven a coach and horses through environmental standards – and we haven’t even got to the Brexit cliff edge yet, writes the Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Train in pain: are noise-filled carriages bad for your health?

We live amid an ever-increasing hail of noise – yet quiet carriages on trains are under threat. But is too much chit-chat bad for our health?

My problem with Viagra? It feeds men’s obsession with macho performance

I’m all for the erectile dysfunction drug being available over the counter. But this doesn’t mean women have to tolerate men’s fantasy-driven sex antics, writes Guardian columnist Deborah Orr

Until hospitals learn from their mistakes, babies like my son will continue to die

Jeremy Hunt’s new reforms are the best hope yet of ensuring health professionals are open and honest when things go wrong, writes campaigner James Titcombe

Five-a-day eating targets ‘will be unaffordable for millions after Brexit’

Thinktank says consumption of fruit and vegetables could be hit by exchange rates, tariffs and higher labour costs

A moment that changed me: being diagnosed with breast cancer

At first, I was desperate to regain control. But when my body didn’t let me, I learned to let go – and put myself at the centre of my life, writes Joanna Clarke-Jones

How Wellcome sent a medicine collector to wander Asia for a decade

UK exhibition tells story of Paira Mall, an Indian doctor dispatched by a millionaire in 1911 to send back Ayurvedic materials

Rapid use of blood drug could save thousands of lives, study finds

Analysis shows chance of death from blood loss is 70% less likely if cheap, widely used tranexamic acid is administered promptly