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Offering e-STI kits in parallel with existing sexual health services could improve testing rates, suggests new research

From a storyline on a radio soap to a youth-focused campaign featuring animated emojis, three inspiring sexual health campaigns

More people in the world own a mobile phone than own a toilet. We meet the Aussie loo paper pioneers on a mission not only to encourage people to use recycled paper, but to help build toilets [...]

As a successful advertising executive, Dan Parker helped companies like Coca-Cola and McDonald's shift fizzy drinks and fast food. But when diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, he quit ad land. [...]

Three prisons have become the first in the UK to host a weekly parkrun, with others expressing an interest in doing the same

For those with breast cancer, a mastectomy may seem the best option. Joanna Moorhead thought so – until she listened to her instincts at the last minute. Now she’s glad she chose less extensive surgery

Launched this week, Freda offers organic sanitary towels and tampons via subscription. The company pledges to donate a proportion of profits to schemes that are tackling period poverty in the UK [...]

Bodyform has become the first brand to make a TV advert featuring realistic-looking ‘blood’ on a sanitary pad rather than the traditional blue liquid

Save the people, save the forest. In rural Indonesia, a pioneering clinic is showing how the health of people and forests could and should be intertwined

The potentially harmful practice of skin lightening is a multi-billion dollar industry that walks the line between aesthetic choice and racial prejudice. Mary-Rose Abraham meets those standing up [...]

E-cigarettes, legislation and cultural changes have led to record numbers of people successfully kicking the smoking habit in the UK, say UCL researchers

The number of Zika transmissions in the Americas has dropped dramatically in the past year

Sex workers in Mozambique are providing health support to those at the margins of society. They face political and financial challenges, but against the odds they are helping thousands

Though an estimated 800 million women are menstruating as you read this, periods can be associated with silence and shame. We explore efforts to change this, from outlawing menstrual seclusion, [...]

Our pick of initiatives aiming to make menstruation sanitary products accessible to all

Young people who are taking the latest HIV drugs have a near-normal life expectancy as a result of improvements in treatments, a study suggests

The world’s most intricate imaging of the brain's internal wiring has been made by scientists at Cardiff University. It could provide unprecedented insight into the causes of conditions such as [...]

A lack of hygienic sanitation is a major issue in many parts of the world, but are resource-hungry western style toilets the only option? Not according to the company piloting a loo that's [...]

The number of people who are alive in the UK thanks to organ transplants has exceeded 50,000 for the first time

From terror attacks in London and Manchester, to the US withdrawal from the Paris climate treaty, and the Grenfell Tower fire: bad news has dominated in recent months. But there are inspiring [...]