American jails have become the new mental asylums – and you’re paying the bill

Thomas J Dart: How to fund real treatment, instead of turning would-be patients into expensive inmates

British FGM campaigner backs US campaign to raise awareness on cutting

Fahma Mohamed backs American petition started by Atlanta woman who suffered mutilation as a child in the Gambia

Virus experiments risk unleashing global pandemic, study warns

Benefits of scientific testing in the area are outweighed by risks of pathogenic strains spreading round world, say researchers

Buying sex toys doesn’t make a woman ‘lady crazy’. It makes you totally normal

Jessica Valenti: In states like Georgia, you can openly carry a gun, but you can't purchase a butt plug without a prescription

White House pushes universities to improve handling of sexual assault

Obama administration task force announces proposals after finding one in five students are the victim of assault

In California, Gwyneth’s ‘conscious uncoupling’ sounds as normal as any other new age fad

The Paltrow-Martin uncoupling met with little cynicism in California, where a new generation of 'gurus' have found success through association with celebrities

America’s universities: where you’re all too likely to be sexually assaulted

Sofie Karasek: How many more victims have to speak out before US universities and the federal government take meaningful action?

Spending more time in the dark could boost hearing in old age

Dana Smith: Hope for non-invasive treatment for age-related deafness as scientists find neurons can compensate for disability at any age

True free market proponents should support private-public competition

Dean Baker: The debate is often presented as between people who like the government and people who like the market. It isn't

AOL’s Tim Armstrong couldn’t be more wrong about ‘distressed babies’

Janet Sheaffer Pickel: My twins were born prematurely and cost millions to treat, but you can't put a price on human life. I'm glad I didn't work at AOL