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

Mindfulness: the altered state of America

Ed Halliwell: Mindfulness meditation was once a tool of the counter-culture. But now it's transforming the minds of conservative America

Don’t let extreme anti-abortion groups infiltrate the mainstream

Kate Smurthwaite: Attempts to access abortion data have left women scared and intimidated. We must guard against a rise in extremist activities

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

Pro-choice supporters plan first ever protest against anti-abortion activists

Counter-demonstration to be held at British Pregnancy Advisory Service clinic in London targeted by religious groups

The Ashley treatment: ‘Her life is as good as we can possibly make it’

In an exclusive email exchange, Ashley's father talks to Ed Pilkington about his daughter's condition, her growth attenuation treatment – and the criticism his family has faced

Doonesbury strip on Texas abortion law dropped by some US newspapers

Several papers decline to use cartoon strip, which depicts state-required sonograms as Republican-approved rape

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?

Disney cancels plan to open fitness park after obesity ‘bullying’ claims

Habit Heroes shuttered after cries it stigmatized overweight children with villains called Snacker and The Glutton

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