Women’s Rugby World Cup: Campaigns aim to stop thousands of girls giving up on sport

Women’s Rugby World Cup: Campaigns aim to stop thousands of girls giving up on sport

Nicola GoodwinBBC Midlands Investigations BBC Sports groups in England are hoping to use the success of the England Women’s team to keep youngsters, like these in Worcester, playing their sport A million teenage girls are giving up sport because of deep-rooted negative attitudes – but could the England Women’s Rugby World Cup victory change that? … Read more

Fertility clinics must stop unproven treatments, watchdog warns

Fertility clinics must stop unproven treatments, watchdog warns

Smitha MundasadHealth reporter Getty Images Both NHS and private fertility clinics must stop offering unproven treatments that don’t help people have children, new official guidelines say. The draft guidance advises against several popular fertility “add-ons”, including so-called endometrial scratches. These add-ons can “give false hope and put people through unnecessary procedures at an already difficult … Read more

Baby food firms told to cut sugar and stop promoting snacks for under-ones

Baby food firms told to cut sugar and stop promoting snacks for under-ones

Catrin Nye and Adam Eley BBC News Getty Images Baby food manufacturers must cut levels of salt and sugar in their products and stop promoting snacks for babies under the age of one, the government has said. The new guidance would also restrict the use of marketing claims that suggest health benefits without scientific evidence. … Read more

Sainsburys and Morrisons told to stop advertising heated tobacco

Sainsburys and Morrisons told to stop advertising heated tobacco

The government has written to Sainsbury’s and Morrisons asking them to stop “advertising and promoting” heated tobacco products, which it says is against the law. The BBC reported in February the supermarkets were displaying posters and video screens showing devices which create a nicotine-containing vapour by heating tobacco with an electric current. At the time, … Read more

Student suicide review says unis must act to stop more deaths

Student suicide review says unis must act to stop more deaths

Getty Images Universities in England have been told to step up efforts to prevent student suicides, in a review commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE). A report, which has been in the works for nearly two years, says they should assess the safety of student halls and involve families more after a student has … Read more

‘Boycott Turkey’ hits fashion: Myntra, Ajio stop selling these Turkish labels

‘Boycott Turkey’ hits fashion: Myntra, Ajio stop selling these Turkish labels

Indian fashion shoppers will no longer find clothes from popular Turkish brands on Myntra and Ajio. The two leading online fashion platforms have removed Turkish products after growing boycott calls over Turkey’s support to Pakistan during the recent India-Pakistan military conflict. The move comes after Turkey and Azerbaijan publicly backed Pakistan following India’s Operation Sindoor. … Read more

Inquiry hears Essex mental health trusts ‘try to stop’ coroner reports

Inquiry hears Essex mental health trusts ‘try to stop’ coroner reports

Stuart Woodward BBC News, Essex Reporting fromLampard Inquiry Jamie Niblock/BBC Deborah Coles said the behaviour of some NHS trusts at inquests was “reprehensible” Health trusts have repeatedly tried to prevent coroners from issuing Prevention of Future Death reports in order to protect their reputations, an inquiry has heard. Deborah Coles, director of the charity Inquest, … Read more

China’s plastic surgery boom: ‘I’ve had 100 operations and will never stop’

China’s plastic surgery boom: ‘I’ve had 100 operations and will never stop’

Natalia Zuo BBC Eye, World Service Investigations BBC Abby Wu, who’s had more than 100 operations, is one of China’s first cosmetic surgery influencers Abby Wu was just 14 when she had cosmetic surgery for the first time. After receiving hormone treatment for an illness, Abby’s weight increased from 42kg (6 stone 8lbs) to 62kg … Read more