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  Debenhams' size 16 mannequins are great. Now we need even more diversity

  6 Nov 2013:

  Jane Martinson: The high-street retailer's move sets the lead for others to follow. Perhaps now we can hope for a healthier attitude to body shapes

• The secret language of surgery

  6 Nov 2013: Roger Kneebone: There are many voices in the operating theatre, and sometimes the most important are those that don't use words at all

• Female genital mutilation demands practical help for victims

  5 Nov 2013: Letters: Your report omitted one crucial element: the need to provide refugee protection to those women who have sought safety in the UK

• Consumers' fibs may explain diet paradox

  5 Nov 2013:

  Letters: Food purchasing surveys, like food consumption surveys, depend on people telling researchers honestly what they buy and eat. In this age of obesity, they lie about calories

• 'I can't believe it': German expat's reaction to UK's 'superior' quality of life

  5 Nov 2013: Susann Schmiede is in London for her boyfriend – and definitely not the healthcare, housing or holidays

• Female genital mutilation is child abuse. We are failing young British girls

  5 Nov 2013:

  Leyla Hussein: Thousands of girls in the UK are at risk of the vile practice of FGM. I'm confident many can be saved, and you could help

• Music gives people a voice when words fail them at the end of their lives

  5 Nov 2013:

  Bob Heath: Improvising songs can open a vital channel of communication in palliative care

• The thigh-gap obsession is not new but it's the most extreme body fixation yet

  4 Nov 2013:

  Young women worrying about thigh fat is not a passing fad. So what advice can we offer, wonders Hadley Freeman

• Eel exfoliation baths: what a raving mad idea

  4 Nov 2013:

  An eel-bath is the latest beauty treatment on offer. But be warned: do not blithely trust these treatments

• Can a shot of humanities make doctors more humane?

  4 Nov 2013:

  Charlotte Blease: A course of 'medical humanities' is supposed to unlock the empathy so often missing in care, but evidence is lacking

• Report calls for female genital mutilation to be treated as child abuse

  4 Nov 2013:

  Coalition of health professionals recommends aggressive steps to eradicate the practice in the UK

• Expenditure on food: nutritional slump

  4 Nov 2013: Editorial: If obesity can be traced to a deadly sin, it looks as if it may be sloth rather than gluttony that is to blame

• Could a Movember moustache be good for you all year round?

  3 Nov 2013:

  Matthew Jenkin: Facial hair may have health benefits, from improving your immune system to protecting your face from the sun

• How much sleep do teenagers need?

  3 Nov 2013: Luisa Dillner: More than they get on average. And lack of sleep can make them tired, irritable, depresssed and more likely to catch colds, flu and gastroenteritis

• Children will thrive with full access to the great outdoors

  3 Nov 2013:

  The big issue: There is a big inequality in children's access to enjoying games outside

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