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

New York governor to ban insurers from funding gay ‘conversion therapy’

Andrew Cuomo to announce executive action against ‘hateful and fundamentally flawed practice’ upon receiving Human Rights Campaign award

Fitbit used to track students’ physical activity at Oral Roberts University

Private school in Tulsa, Oklahoma, says bracelet it uses doesn’t contain GPS tracker but still monitors students at all hours as part of ‘whole person education’

Can smartphone drug trials improve medical care?

A new clinical trial is attempting to track how participants suffering from depression respond to mental health apps