Not Going Quietly review – healthcare activist Ady Barkan takes ALS to congress

Documentary follows Barkan, who has motor neurone disease, as he campaigns for better public healthcare in the US

Bless you! Meet the flu hunters trying to stop the next pandemic in its tracks

Remember flu? Despite lockdowns holding it at bay, a small group of scientists is searching the globe for deadly new strains – and to work out what to put in next winter’s vaccines

‘Will the babies be left in a war zone?’ The terrified Ukrainian surrogates – and the parents waiting for their children

The Russian invasion has put surrogate mothers in a desperate position – and left foreign couples fearing the worst

US boy with uncombable hair syndrome becomes Instagram hit

Locklan Samples of Georgia has a rare condition that means his hair stands out from the scalp and cannot be combed flat

Reasons to be cheerful: optimists live longer, says study

Those with a positive attitude to life may lower their anxiety levels by avoiding arguments or not perceiving traffic jams as stressful

‘Aggressive’ marketing of formula milk flouts code, warns WHO as it urges curbs

‘Misleading’ messages from $55bn-a-year industry are ‘unethical’, says report, which calls for plain packaging rules similar to tobacco

The herbalists of Tunis medina: on borrowed thyme – a photo essay

From the cavernous shops in Souq El Blat, herbalists share the rich and fascinating history of their proud and ancient trade – and their fears that it could disappear

Living in a woman’s body: my body belongs to me. I can harness and shape it as I see fit

We get the body we get at birth. But I learned eventually that I didn’t have to accept it, that changes are within our grasp

‘I don’t want to die’: the shielders who fear the end of Covid restrictions

Thousands of vulnerable people fear others’ freedoms will put them under permanent house arrest as Covid becomes endemic

‘I used to judge people’: the Polish woman who became her city’s lone voice for abortion rights

Monika was too busy with her young family to join the early protests against Poland’s strict abortion laws. But when she became pregnant for the fourth time, she realised she had to act