Taboo-busting sex guide offers advice to Muslim women seeking fulfilling love lives

The Muslimah Sex Manual: A Halal Guide to Mind Blowing Sex is praised for empowering women

Woman who fears daughter faces FGM gets deportation reprieve

Theresa May intervenes after SNP MP highlights case of Lola Ilesanmi who feared three-year-old daughter would face female genital mutilation in Nigeria

Dementia and Alzheimer’s main cause of death for women, says Public Health England

Female life expectancy is now 83 years but many women will spend a quarter of their lives in ill-health, finds report

Tall men at bigger risk of aggressive prostate cancer, study suggests

UK scientists find chance of high-grade prostate cancer rises by 21% with every 10cm increment in height

School clamps down on phones and Fitbits to ease body image worries

Stroud high school for girls says tech gadgets and social media exacerbate pressures leading to low self-esteem

Am I pregnant? You asked Google – here’s the answer

Every day millions of internet users ask Google life’s most difficult questions. Freelance journalist Nell Frizzell answers this common query

Blood contamination has killed 2,400. Why was this disaster ignored for so long?

Diana Johnson has long been calling for justice over the NHS’s worst treatment disaster. She writes about the announcement of an inquiry

Poor quality sleep could increase Alzheimer’s risk, research suggests

Findings raise possibility repeated disruption of slow wave sleep could lead to a buildup of proteins linked to disease

Half of junior doctors having accidents or near misses after night shifts

Sleep deprivation among trainee doctors and anaesthetists is causing accidents or near misses on way home, report says

Men: forget younger women, and face up to the fact that sperm goes off too

Recent research shows that male fertility declines after the age of 40. Perhaps we all need to be a bit more honest about the choices we make• Christina Patterson is a writer, broadcaster and columnist