Susan G Komen: the social media backlash
America's leading breast cancer charity has reversed its decision to withdraw funding to Planned Parenthood following a huge outcry
How US private insurance healthcare is failing
Rose Ann DeMoro: Sky-high premiums, denied treatments, families bankrupted by medical bills … which bit of US healthcare would you like?
Los Angeles to porn industry: wear a condom
LA city councilors approved an ordinance that makes the use of condoms in porn mandatory, but the industry claims it is unnecessary and will cost them jobs
Listen up: wearing headphones can endanger life, study finds
US research finds number of pedestrians injured while wearing headphones has tripled in six years
1992: New fears about breast implants
Concerns about the dangers of silicone breast implants are not new as this story from 20 years ago shows.
Mayo Clinic plans to sequence patients’ genomes to personalise care
Project will give doctors the genetic information they need to choose drugs that work best and minimise side effects
James Hillman obituary
US psychologist who concluded that therapy needed to change the world rather than focus on people's inner lives
HIV/Aids: We are all unprotected
Sarah Boseley: On World Aids Day, the Global Fund is collapsing. No fund means millions more in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond at risk
Multiple gene test allows more targeted treatment of cancer
SNaPshot test looks for mutations in key genes of patients with cancer so they can be given the most effective drugs
America’s problem with sex education
Daniel Denvir: Given the comic failure of abstinence-only – 95% of Americans have premarital sex – isn't it time the US got over its hangup?