Labour calls for immediate end to use of vaginal mesh implants

Sharon Hodgson, shadow public health minister, says use of mesh implants is a ‘public health scandal’ as they have left some women in permanent pain

As a teenage boy with anorexia I couldn’t find words to describe my mental illness

Not all silence on mental health problems is down to stigma. Sometimes it’s difficult to articulate what’s wrong

Pregnant in Ireland: ‘I had no control and was made to feel ashamed’

The eighth amendment does not allow women the right to informed consent or refusal of treatment during pregnancy – why is this tolerated?

Sepsis: the truth about this hidden killer

Sepsis is responsible for more deaths in the UK than bowel, breast and prostate cancer combined. So why is so little known about it?

Medicine treats women as entirely passive – being ‘told’ about HRT is par for the course

I do not know a woman who hasn’t been patronised by a doctor or made to feel she should not complain

Thinking of suing the NHS? Here’s why you should think again

With medical negligence cases sharply up, citizens need to ask if they really want ever larger sums drained from services to go to a few claimants who can prove their case, writes Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

What’s stopping pharmacies doing more to reduce pressure on GPs?

Chemists can already provide vital services, such as the morning-after pill – but a new study shows they are being chronically underused

‘Listen to women’: UK doctors issued with first guidance on endometriosis

Disease, which causes crippling pain and can lead to infertility, affects 176 million women worldwide and currently takes seven to eight years to diagnose

UK families could get money off shopping bills if they hit exercise goals

NHS ‘healthy towns’ scheme could offer rewards such as free cinema tickets in attempt to reduce lifestyle-related illnesses

Severe birth trauma has left me terrified of having another child

Normally associated with soldiers, post-traumatic stress disorder affects 20,000 new mothers in the UK each year