The fertility tourists
More and more Europeans are going to India for fertility treatment. Raekha Prasad reports
Monthly prescription
A recent report suggests that more and more women are being offered antidepressants for the symptoms of premenstrual syndrome. Is this really the solution for a complex condition? Luisa Dillner reports
Health and beauty
Alice Hart-Davis tests self-tans, shower gels, blue eyeliners and vitamin C serums
The survival specialist
After a difficult upbringing, Martha Beck went on to have a child with Down's syndrome, marry a gay man and realise that she, too, was gay. As she tells Emine Saner, who better to write self-help books?
In toy land, is there nothing about the sea that’s macho enough for boys to identify with apart from pirates?
Zoe Williams: T and I made our first substantial toy outlay this week, on some squirting pirates
Photographs show how you really look
Kira Cochrane: Whether I've been 11st or 17st, I've always thought that I looked all right. However high my weight has gone, whenever I've peered in the mirror I've always looked exactly the same as I did when I was at my thinnest
The Well Baby Clinic is aptly named. If there’s anything wrong with your child they can’t do a thing to help
Zoe Williams: These clinics don't really do anything apart from make babies cry by taking all their clothes off and putting them in grocer's scales
Age shall not wither her
Some of the most exciting artists of our time are women over 60. Emine Saner asks Paula Rego, Gillian Ayres and others how age has affected their work, while guest editor Natalie d'Arbeloff explains what prompted her to commission this piece
Running to recover
Katharine Locke had never exercised before she was diagnosed with breast cancer. After months of painful treatment she completed her first 5km challenge
It’s all very well being in sheltered accommodation – until after 5.30pm, when all the staff go home
Michele Hanson: The 'dignity for the elderly' campaign seems to have gone on to the back burner for the time being. Quick. Get it back to the front. Because it's your turn next