Ecotherapy: why plants are the latest treatment for depression and anxiety

The combination of physical activity, social contact and being surrounded by nature is thought to make gardening beneficial for our mental health

No, Boris Johnson, working harder is not a solution for poor mental health

Offering tax incentives to companies who support depressed employees sounds like a step towards privatising the NHS, writes Arwa Mahdawi

My breast reduction: why I had the surgery that helped Simona Halep win at Wimbledon

The operation freed me from chronic headaches, and back and neck pain. But nothing about the process was easy

HPV vaccine to be given to boys in effort to slash cancer rates

Move by NHS could prevent more than 100,000 cancers across UK by 2058

Pregnant smokers warned of ‘potentially deadly risks’

More than 61,399 women still smoking last year at time they gave birth, NHS England says

Nurses vote to back decriminalisation of prostitution

Royal College of Nurses to lobby UK government in move to protect sex workers’ health

When survival is a popularity contest: the heartbreak of crowdfunding healthcare

A growing number of Britons are turning to online fundraising for essential treatment in a desperate, ‘Dickensian’ attempt to get around NHS shortfalls. But does it work?

Neglect by mental health trust led to Bristol student’s suicide

Coroner rules Avon and Wiltshire trust failed in the care of Natasha Abrahart

‘My tutor said it wasn’t a job for a man’: my journey from roofer to midwife

I’ve encountered sexism, but it’s an amazing job and an honour to support women giving birth

Call for poor and disabled to be given NHS fitness trackers

Vulnerable groups ‘could be left behind by technology revolution in medicine’, widening health inequality