Today’s news features a set of brilliantly daft pictures from a Chinese hospital that is offering men the opportunity to experience the pain of childbirth. The labour-simulating device (which sounds like a supercharged version of those useless abdominal toners sold to optimistic couch potatoes on

In 1672 the eminent Dutch physician Regnier de Graaf published one of the defining works in the history of biology, unravelling many of the mysteries of the human reproductive system at a time when microscopic techniques were still in their infancy. But alongside De Graaf’s many detailed sketches

Two out of five mothers feel they are discharged from hospital too soon after giving birth, according to a survey that raises fresh concern about NHS postnatal care. Research undertaken by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) and the Netmums website found that 40% of new mothers felt they were sent