What can your period tell you about the state of your health?

Bodyform’s new sanitary towel ad uses red liquid to represent period discharge – about bloody time. Making menstruation more visible in advertising – and conversation – is good for us

Labour calls for immediate end to use of vaginal mesh implants

Sharon Hodgson, shadow public health minister, says use of mesh implants is a ‘public health scandal’ as they have left some women in permanent pain

What to do if you’re a Londoner worried about gonorrhoea? Test yourself, apparently

The bodged handover from personal consultation is a money-saving exercise – when infection rates are rising in the capital, says sex and relationship broadcaster Nichi Hodgson

ITV’s Victoria illustrates how 19th-century sexism helped syphilis to spread

With concealment common and women expected not even to show knowledge of the disease, infection of families by men was widespread across all classes

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