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

My life as a midwife is nothing like it’s portrayed on TV

The smiling angels of Call the Midwife and hi-tech cheerleaders of documentaries create a simplistic and unhelpful impression

Sexual dysfunction cuts risk ‘leaving thousands in UK without help’

Women especially affected, with relationships and ability to conceive impacted, say experts

Molly Case, the NHS nurse who finds poetry on the wards

The student nurse whose impassioned poem about the NHS went viral talks about her new memoir