‘i don’t have faith in doctors anymore.’

Efforts to prohibit abortion down the ages

Q Upon turning 40, I started using the Mirena coil for contraception, and was told it would last for eight years. I’m now menopausal and have been discussing HRT with my doctor. They say that if I wan

Helen Murray Taylor shares how a mental health breakdown led to her being sectioned

Plastic surgeon Dr Michael Longaker was an undergraduate at Michigan State University in 1979. Now renowned for his work on scarring, back then Longaker’s interests lay more in sports than scientific

When Shaunna-leigh flew to Turkey for weight-loss surgery, it was anything but plain sailing…

As the words echoed overhead, it was nothing unusual. ‘Level one paediatric trauma,’ the announcement said. I was an ICU nurse, looking after patients in critical condition and I’d spent the past eigh