Doctors’ new prescription: ‘Don’t just exercise, do it outside’
In the latest battle against obesity, doctors prescribe exercise – outdoors. Will the green-prescriptions movement take off?
More US college freshmen ‘depressed’ than at any time in the past 30 years
Survey of 153,000 students hits lowest wellbeing mark ever as report calls on campuses to take action
FGM affects three times more people in the US than previously thought
Campaigners call for action to deal with ‘state of emergency’ as figures show more than 500,000 US women are living with or at risk from consequences
Republicans hope latest anti-Obamacare bill will be first to reach president’s desk
Decision to hold another seemingly meaningless vote comes ahead of more serious threat to the Act – the supreme court’s hearing of King v Burwell case
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