Revealed: Johnson & Johnson’s ‘irresponsible’ actions over vaginal mesh implant

Woman awarded record $57m damages over implant launched with no clinical trial and marketed despite higher failure rate

HIV rates climbing among over-50s in UK and Europe, researchers warn

Older people more likely to be infected through heterosexual sex and to have more advanced disease when it is finally diagnosed, new study reveals

Surgeons lacked caution in use of vaginal mesh implants, doctor admits

Head of Australia’s urogynaecological society says while women who suffered life-altering complications were ‘let down’, push to ban the devices are ‘hysterical’

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

Years of pain, but no diagnosis: one woman’s experience of endometriosis

Katie Beales suffered crippling monthly pain from the age of 14, but doctor after doctor failed to recognise a disease that impacts up to one in 10 women

‘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

Pelvic mesh victims disgusted at suggestion of anal sex as solution

‘Only a misogynist could think this way,’ says Australian woman in response to her doctor’s solution to painful intercourse

UK medicines agency seizes HIV home-test kits over false result risk

More than 100 Hightop kits, which have not met EU regulations, seized as agency warns consumers against using them

Bollywood’s hot new topics: open toilets, menstrual hygiene and erectile dysfunction

Forget all those swirling songs and plots about love, heartache and family values. Bollywood has more pressing concerns

The Guardian view on vaginal mesh implants: trust data and patients

Editorial: The devices have benefited a large number of women – but thousands have suffered serious adverse effects