Ebooks at night won’t help you sleep tight, US study finds
Alison Flood: Harvard researchers say light-emitting ebooks negatively affect our sleep and lead to next-day grogginess
Debt collectors pursue 43m Americans over unpaid medical bills
One in five Americans have unpaid medical debts, according to a a new government report from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Food for thought: new FDA rules will put calorie counts on menus
Restaurants, supermarkets, convenience stores and vending machines must have tallies displayed ‘clearly and conspicuously’ by November 2015
‘I can’t think of a time when it was worse’: US abortion doctors speak out
Curtis and Glenna Boyd have worked in US abortion clinics ever since Roe v Wade made the practice legal in 1973. Forty years on, restricted rights mean they have to practise under FBI protection. Karen McVeigh reports
Dalai Lama enlightens and enraptures contemplative scientists in Boston
James Kingsland: Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was given a rapturous reception by mindfulness researchers, but tactfully avoided the controversial question of applications in the military
Gambian campaigner returns home to stop female gential mutilation
Jaha Dukureh heads for The Gambia after 10 years in the US where she led a Guardian backed campaign against FGM
Guardian campaigner meets White House officials in bid to end FGM
Jaha Dukureh launched campaign with NGO Equality Now to highlight the issue of female genital mutilation in the US
Skinny jeans: destroyer of iPhones, enemy of sperm and threat to our world
Not only do tight pants bend shoddy cellphones, they are anti-wallet, poor for cycling and no good for those with knobbly knees
Beyond GDP: US states have adopted genuine progress indicators
From Vermont to Hawaii, the GPI is becoming more popular. How can states use it to inform policy and economic development strategies?
Republicans are still trying to destroy Obamacare, and they’re still losing
Scott Lemieux: Conservatives want to protect your right to an avoidable death due to a lack of health insurance. It’s the principle of the thing