Casualty turns spotlight on female genital mutilation

Campaigners hail move by BBC soap to take scandal out of the shadows on to peak-time TV for first time

Lisa Lynch obituary

Writer who recounted her experience of cancer with engaging candour

Miss Vogue receives cautious welcome from health campaigners

Spin-off fashion magazine aimed at teenagers must adopt 'responsible approach' warns MP amid body image fears

Why women look old. Why January is gloomy. Why the media push this guff

James Ball: Newspapers can be fun without peddling stories based on press releases featuring 'polls' and 'studies' that make no sense

Change4Life advertising campaign highlights sugar and fat in food

Government TV campaign targets obesity after supermarkets agree voluntary 'traffic light' food labelling

Smokers face graphic ad campaign showing tumour growing on cigarette

£2.7m advertising campaign will warn smokers that just 15 cigarettes can lead to a cancerous tumour

Women should support each other over weight, says minister

Jo Swinson says women could do more to help each other ignore media pressure to be thin

Twitter and Facebook get on the school timetable in anti-libel lessons

Lord McAlpine's case has prompted one headteacher to educate pupils about the dangers of social media

No ironic spin is possible for SoulCycle coming to Williamsburg

Emma Brockes: New York's 'sincerity wars' have been prematurely curtailed – by the arrival in hipster central of an entirely irony-free exercise cult

Bodyform’s bloodless snark attack

Arwa Mahdawi: The sanitary pad brand's response to a Facebook comment is funny, but it remains within the conventions it's satirising