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Almost half of pregnant black women raised concerns to healthcare professionals during labour, with half saying that their concerns were also not properly addressed, according to…

Two women who conceived their eldest children while they were in violent and controlling relationships have lost a legal challenge to the rules around the two-child…

In 12 and a half minutes or less, you must: Run half a mile; scramble up a six-foot wall; lift 16 sandbags, each one roughly the…

Susan Burton, reporter and host of the podcast “The Retrievals,” talks about the alarming number of patients who report feeling significant pain during their C-sections.

It was during the 19th Century that clubs in London boomed – approximately a dozen existed at the start of the century, and 400 by the…

Duncan Campbell on the power of protestFrom the suffragettes at the start of the last century to Reclaim the Night in the 1970s; from the battle…

Healthy life expectancy for women in the most deprived areas of England and Wales has fallen to the lowest level since recent records began, with those…

Trista Egli was standing in a greenhouse, tearing up strips of plantain and preparing to feed them to butterfly larvae.Of the many things the team here…

Routine cervical screening should be offered to women aged 65 and over as they are still at heightened risk of cancer from human papillomavirus (HPV), according…

Put politics aside when it comes to child sexual exploitation, grooming gang survivors urgeAlexandra ToppingThe political “tug-of-war with vulnerable women” abused by grooming gangs must stop…