New York governor to ban insurers from funding gay ‘conversion therapy’
Andrew Cuomo to announce executive action against ‘hateful and fundamentally flawed practice’ upon receiving Human Rights Campaign award
FGM: number of victims found to be 70 million higher than thought
Half of girls and women cut live in just three countries as Unicef statistics reveal shocking global scale of barbaric ritual
Letter to my daughter: what is it like to be a girl in 2016?
Psychotherapist and anti-FGM campaigner shares her hopes and fears for all girls around the globe this year in a letter to her 13-year-old daughter
Obsessed By My Body review: at last I know why bodybuilders smear themselves with fake tan
Welcome to the world of teenage bodybuilding – a hotbed of preening and paranoia. Plus, The Secret Life of the Zoo; time to rethink meerkats – they’re not as cute as they look
Snuffed out – the kids’ classics that would be censored by a smoking ban
The World Health Organisation would like films that feature smoking to automatically be given adult ratings. Bad news for Pinocchio and Cruella de Vil …
Zika outbreak raises fears of rise in deaths from unsafe abortions
Campaigners urge governments in Latin America to rethink bans on abortion and make contraception widely available
Breastfeeding could prevent 800,000 child deaths, Lancet says
Breastfeeding at risk from poor government policies, lack of support for mothers and aggressive formula milk industry, research finds
Zika virus likely to spread throughout the Americas, says WHO
Drug companies evaluate existing vaccine technology as only Canada and Chile expected to be free of mosquito-borne disease
‘Urban myth’ that lesbian women don’t need pap smears is a health risk – study
University of Sydney study finds that lesbian women are being tested less for virus that can cause cervical cancer and sexually transmitted disease in general
World making barely any progress on preventing stillbirths, says Lancet
It will be more than 160 years before a woman in Africa has the same chance of her baby being born alive as a woman in a rich country, new research claims