Pregnancy
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More girls in Australian study who used the dolls – designed to prevent teenage pregnancy – became pregnant than those who did not
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Public Health England updates travel advice after first cases of mosquito-borne disease are transmitted on US mainland
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Food Standards Agency to reconsider its advice as risk from salmonella has dropped significantly in last 15 years
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Scientists say they can rejuvenate ovaries. I’m surprised by how this prospect makes me nostalgic for the sense of an ending, the ‘natural order of things’
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The UK’s teenage pregnancy rate has halved over the past two decades. Could the internet have something to do with it?
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The island’s law on terminations is unfair and unreasonable. We want equality with the UK so women can access abortions on the NHS
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It seems like the concept of the biological clock has been with us for ever. In fact, the metaphor was invented in the late 1970s. And it has been used to reinforce sexist ideas ever since
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Please, can we stop telling women when to have babies?
Michele HansonThey don’t need to be shamed into hurrying up by experts like Gillian Lockwood. And being part of the ‘sandwich generation’ isn’t that bad – I know -
Trying to keep my unborn child from possible harm made me very ill. I learned the hard way that I don’t have a choice, but I accept that now
Pregnancy and mental health: the hidden pain of giving birth