Double mastectomy: my brutal 40-day breast cancer cure
Emma Gilbey Keller: A handful of atypical cells one week; a double mastectomy and reconstructive surgery the next
‘Obamacare’ at the mercy of the supreme court
Kevin Powell: If Americans are promised not just liberty but life and happiness, is there not a constitutional right to affordable healthcare?
Healthcare law: outside the supreme court, passions flare over legal battle
This week's hearings may be a dry contest of legal precedent, but there is no shortage of furiously divided opinion outside court
Why anti-choice campaigners won’t let science get in their way
Amanda Marcotte: Research claiming a link between abortion and mental illness in women always gets debunked, but do these ideologues care?
Virginia’s vagina-violating ultrasound law
Lizz Winstead: Governor McDonnell frets that his ultrasound law violates the US constitution. Let me tell you, Bob, it violates a lot more than that
Women say no to ‘state-sponsored rape’
Should women be forced to endure a vaginal ultrasound before being allowed to have an abortion? Legislators in Virginia think they should but opposition is mounting
Q&A with Naomi Wolf: the breast implant scandal
Naomi Wolf: Even before PIP, there was masses of evidence of silicone implant failure. Why does profit come before women's health?
The silicone breast implant scandal
Naomi Wolf: The US and UK authorities must think women are either stupid or worthless to permit this shameful profiting from their suffering
How America became a nation of freelancers
Teresa Wiltz: The economy is recovering, unemployment is down. But the old jobs are gone: benefit-free contract working is the new normal
How US private insurance healthcare is failing
Rose Ann DeMoro: Sky-high premiums, denied treatments, families bankrupted by medical bills … which bit of US healthcare would you like?