By taking his daughter for yearly hymen tests, the rapper TI is passing on a dangerous, deeply misguided attitude to sexI have some exciting news for US rapper TI’s daughter: there is no way to tell if a vagina has ever had a penis inside it by medical…
Seekers after unconventional treatments should do so on the understanding that they have not been proven to workHuman health is complicated, and while the history of medicine is often represented as a triumphant march from darkness into light, for many…
Virginity test discussed on Ladies Like Us podcast contravenes guidelines from UN, who describe it as ‘painful, humiliating and traumatic’US rapper, actor and TV host TI has prompted revulsion after he revealed he accompanies his 18-year-old daughter D…
Debate has raged for years as to whether female sexual pleasure exists for its own sake or has a role in reproduction. But the two views need not be at warThe results are finally in – a study in Clinical Anatomy has found that the clitoris does play an…
Respect in childbirth is a human right. As a midwife of many years’ experience, I am calling for a global effort towards more compassion in maternity careRespectful maternity care is a universal human right due to every childbearing woman in every heal…
The shore | Cod liver oil | Escaping the GDR | Cob coalingCatherine Kelly tells Elle Hunt that “to go to the sea is synonymous with letting go” (We do like to be beside the seaside, 4 November). My mother gave us two good reasons for taking this litera…
Previous research suggested health benefits increased with greater volume of runningAny amount of running is good for you, according to research suggesting it is linked to a similar reduction in the risk of early death no matter how many hours you cloc…
British gnashers are an international laughing stock. Here’s how to stop the rotBritain has long had a global reputation for bad teeth, and scientists now say we may have the worst in the nation’s history. After examining the teeth of 17th-century skul…
Coastal environments have been shown to improve our health, body and mind. So should doctors start issuing nature-based prescriptions?After her mother’s sudden death, Catherine Kelly felt the call of the sea. She was in her 20s and had been working as …
A&E doctors say plain packaging and cigarette-style warnings would reduce injuries Fireworks should have to carry graphic, cigarette-style warnings and be sold in plain packaging to cut the number of injuries they cause, NHS surgeons have said.They…
From physios working with stroke survivors to radiographers identifying 7/7 victims, it isn’t just doctors and nurses who form bonds with patientsWhen I was a junior speech and language therapist, I worked with a young man who suffered a catastrophic b…
The demise of my old life began with a single, tiny mistake: my partner, making a turn, forgot to signal – and the car accident shattered everythingTwo young black bulls stormed up out of the ditch to fight the middle of the road, muscles straining as …
Breathing life into my characters made me want to live fully again, and finishing the final draft gave me a profound sense of fulfilmentI was writing things about made-up people long before I was writing anything else. What drew me to fiction is still …
One way could be to require parents to have a meeting with a medical professional, where parents learn about how herd immunity works, says one parentI am not sure that making immunisations compulsory, especially for state school pupils, is the way to i…
For years I binged on diet books: paleo, keto, vegan, the 16:8. But can you have too much of a good thing?It started during the 1999 eclipse. The year before, I had run away to Devon. Lots of bad things had happened there, but the main one was that I’d…
Readers condemn the latest select committee report into the treatment of children with learning disabilitiesThis is the most damning select committee report I’ve ever read (Children with special needs plunged into ‘nightmare of bureaucracy’, 23 October…
Online you can find miracle cures, writes Aliya Hasan, but only existentialism resonatesIt is breast cancer awareness month. As someone with secondary breast cancer I am aware of the disease every day. Since I was diagnosed last August I’ve been in a m…
Healthcare professionals aren’t robots. When something goes tragically wrong, our debriefing programme supports themI was 18 when my dad died suddenly of a heart attack. I know now, after working in healthcare for 40 years, that he was already dead in …
The largest cause of bacterial bloodstream infections in the UK is not associated with uncooked meat as we thoughtUncooked chicken has a reputation problem where germs are concerned, and rightly so. But new research from the University of East Anglia, …
Judge instructs jury to find woman not guilty after legal changes come into forceA court in Northern Ireland has acquitted a woman who was prosecuted for buying online abortion pills for her daughter, after the decriminalisation of abortion in the regi…
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