STI warning as clinics close in London and self-testing is delayed
Six long-established sexual health clinics have shut as part of a move from face-to-face consultations to online services
Can an app really provide effective birth control?
Technology that tracks women’s fertility has been hailed as being more effective than the pill – and without side-effects. Is this a genuine revolution in sexual freedom?
Johnson & Johnson vaginal mesh presentation featured lingerie-clad women, court told
More than 700 women say the implants have ruined their lives, as Johnson & Johnson faces a class action in Australia
Women’s rights are on the retreat yet again. Why?
Donald Trump’s ruling making it easier for companies to opt out of providing free birth control highlights the need for vigilance
Vaginal mesh lawsuit: executive denies prioritising Johnson & Johnson interests
Vice-president denies playing down adverse effects during proceedings brought by hundreds of Australian women
Why last night’s VD-laced episode of Victoria should worry modern audiences
The Victorians feared the moral and physical implications of venereal disease, but the problems of untreatable infection and inadequate health provision are all too familiar to a modern audienceSpoiler alert! Plot points from Victoria are revealed in this blog
Revealed: Johnson & Johnson’s ‘irresponsible’ actions over vaginal mesh implant
Woman awarded record $57m damages over implant launched with no clinical trial and marketed despite higher failure rate
HIV rates climbing among over-50s in UK and Europe, researchers warn
Older people more likely to be infected through heterosexual sex and to have more advanced disease when it is finally diagnosed, new study reveals
Surgeons lacked caution in use of vaginal mesh implants, doctor admits
Head of Australia’s urogynaecological society says while women who suffered life-altering complications were ‘let down’, push to ban the devices are ‘hysterical’
What’s stopping pharmacies doing more to reduce pressure on GPs?
Chemists can already provide vital services, such as the morning-after pill – but a new study shows they are being chronically underused
Years of pain, but no diagnosis: one woman’s experience of endometriosis
Katie Beales suffered crippling monthly pain from the age of 14, but doctor after doctor failed to recognise a disease that impacts up to one in 10 women
‘Listen to women’: UK doctors issued with first guidance on endometriosis
Disease, which causes crippling pain and can lead to infertility, affects 176 million women worldwide and currently takes seven to eight years to diagnose
Pelvic mesh victims disgusted at suggestion of anal sex as solution
‘Only a misogynist could think this way,’ says Australian woman in response to her doctor’s solution to painful intercourse
UK medicines agency seizes HIV home-test kits over false result risk
More than 100 Hightop kits, which have not met EU regulations, seized as agency warns consumers against using them
Bollywood’s hot new topics: open toilets, menstrual hygiene and erectile dysfunction
Forget all those swirling songs and plots about love, heartache and family values. Bollywood has more pressing concerns