Young women and stress: how do you cope? Readers respond

Ruth Spencer: Recent research showed that young women are feeling more stressed than men, so we asked you for your best tips to help

How women experience stress: what the research tells us

Studies show that women are more likely to feel anxious or sad – and that women rely more on their social circles than men

Young people deserve better education about abortion

Even in countries where abortion is legal, access is limited or restricted, says Doortje Braeken

Asylum seekers deserve better maternity care

This Mother's Day Anna Musgrave was busy working with the mums who seem to have been forgotten – asylum-seekers denied the dignity in pregnancy the rest of us expect in the UK

Helen Clark: UN must not backtrack on women’s reproductive rights

Head of UN development programme sounds warning as Malta, Russia and Vatican try to remove references to sexual rights

UK funds aim to end female genital mutilation ‘in a generation’

Britain pledges up to £35m to help eliminate FGM, but changing tradition poses huge challenge for campaigners

Sugar is behind global explosion in type 2 diabetes, study finds

Researchers say link between consumption of sugar and diabetes is independent from obesity

Sleeping less than six hours a night skews activity of hundreds of genes

Genes affected by lack of sleep include those governing the immune system, metabolism and the body's response to stress

The Australian cigarette packet that puts you off smoking

Purposefully hideous and utterly unappealing, this future design classic is now up for an award

This column will change your life: do you believe in brainwashing?

'There isn't a hidden switch that lets villains control your thoughts,' Oliver Burkeman says. 'Instead, there are TV ads and manipulative friends and guilt-inducing religions'