Ban Ki-moon backs campaign to tackle FGM through education
UN secretary general praises Fahma Mohamed's campaign to enlist help of headteachers in ending female genital mutilation
Education is central to ending FGM
Ban Ki-moon: A practice that demeans, dehumanises and injures is not a tradition, it's a human rights violation. Headteachers can help stop this
Birth weight is strongly affected by the mother’s own diet as a child
A pregnant woman's diet may have much less effect on her baby's health than what she ate in her own childhood
Progress review: contraception use among adolescent girls
Giving young women access to birth control is a global public health priority. Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli reviews the challenges that remain and the projects changing the odds for girls
Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink – review
Sheri Fink's account of events at a New Orleans hospital post-Katrina asks vital questions about the American healthcare system, writes Peter Beaumont
Loneliness twice as unhealthy as obesity for older people, study finds
Scientists found that the loneliest were nearly twice as likely to die during their six-year study than the least lonely
How supermodel Waris Dirie saved girl from female genital mutilation
Somali model insisted Safa Idriss Nour, the child who played her suffering FGM in biopic, had to be spared the same fate
FGM petition calling on Michael Gove to act reaches 200,000 signatures
Education secretary is being urged to tell headteachers to inform parents and children about practice
FGM: government is in breach of legal obligations, say lawyers
Influential group of human rights lawyers tells MPs that measures to tackle female genital mutilation are insufficient
Anti-abortion clinics should be clearly labelled as such – or shut down
Kate Smurthwaite: It is terrifying 'crisis pregnancy centres' are lying to women to suit their agenda – and the NHS isn't stopping them doing it