UK Biobank puts medical records of half a million Britons online

Anonymous database will help public health researchers around the world unpick the genetic and lifestyle factors behind disease

UK health officials probe possible flu jab link to narcolepsy in children

Investigation centres on Pandemrix vaccine used extensively during 'swine flu' pandemic in 2009/10

PIP breast implant warnings were inadequate, says MPs’ report

Committee recommends women should be allowed to pay NHS for replacement at same time as free removal of faulty implants

Dukan diet inventor faces censure

Pierre Dukan accused of treating medicine 'like a business' and breaking code of practice by French doctors' group

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

Revealed: what children are being told about abortion

The Guardian obtains details of anti-abortion campaign talk claiming abortions are linked to a raised risk of breast cancer

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

PIP breast implant scandal may involve 7,000 more British women

Tests show that substandard silicone was used to fill the implants for much longer than had been thought

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

TV review: One Born Every Minute; Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields: War Crimes Unpunished

Bump, pain, screams, joy – it's the same old story on the labour ward. But what a story, writes Sam Wollaston