Half of all US food produce is thrown away, new research suggests

The demand for ‘perfect’ fruit and veg means much is discarded, damaging the climate and leaving people hungry

Suck at meditation? You may just be doing it right

For me, successfully meditating has involved letting go of the need to do it well. So what if my mind flits from thumbprint cookies to lyrics by the Au Pairs?

Time 100: FGM campaigner Jaha Dukureh makes prestigious list

US campaigner made Obama take action on female genital mutilation, and got practice banned in the Gambia

Sober is the new drunk: why millennials are ditching bar crawls for juice crawls

Is being sober finally trendy? Juice crawls are just one of many booze-free events in the US catering to millennials who are ditching the hooch in favor of clarity

UnitedHealth’s Obamacare exit won’t hurt system but is a PR blow, say experts

The practical impact of the US’s largest health insurer quitting insurance exchanges created by Obamacare is small, but it adds fuel to critics’ arguments

How antibiotic resistance could wreak havoc on health, food and travel

In addition to the estimated 700,000 deaths caused by drug-resistant infections each year, the lack of new antibiotics could have serious extended consequences

Continuing to limit access to birth control would wreak economic havoc

Subsidized contraception is under attack – and this is the result

California rejects plan to force porn actors to wear condoms, dental dams and goggles

Porn star Ela Darling tells regulators that performers could think for themselves and there was no ‘big daddy porn boss’ telling them what to do

Q&A: The Kentucky lawmaker who wants men to ask wives’ permission to take Viagra

State representative Mary Lou Marzian hopes tongue-in-cheek bill will make her male counterparts reconsider how laws police women’s bodies and sexualities

Guns, car crashes and drugs cut US male life expectancy by a year, research says

Gun injuries alone shorten American men’s lives by more than five months, according to CDC research letter as experts reject ‘paralysis’ on issue