Pills or patches, sprays or gels … everything you need to know about HRT
Is hormone replacement therapy right for you and, if it is, what type should you take? All your key questions answered
May 2019
Sexual healing
My wife has lost interest in sex after a hysterectomy
She rejects any show of intimacy on my part, and I feel as if my sexual desire for her is perverted
October 2018
Sexual healing
I find sex painful after my hysterectomy for ovarian cancer
The struggle to be intimate is stopping me and my partner putting my illness behind us
February 2013
Sarah Boseley's global health blog
Women's lives put at risk in India by private healthcare providers
Private hospitals are subjecting women to unnecessary surgery for financial gain, highlighting urgent need for health reform
April 2008
Sexual healing
Sexual healing
Pamela Stephenson Connolly: Few women talk about it, but many experience sexual problems after a hysterectomy
January 2008
Joe Public blog
Whose life is it anyway?
Hospital refuses plea for hysterectomy on cerebral palsy girl
October 2007
When normal rules don't apply
Lucy Mangan
Lucy Mangan: I hope that by the time you read this, Alison Thorpe's 15-year-old daughter Katie will be on her way to being granted the hysterectomy her mother wants her to have.
'Of course I thought about putting her in a home. Sometimes I still do'
What drove Alison Thorpe to seek a hysterectomy for her 15-year-old? Decca Aitkenhead reports.
Medical procedures and the rights of people with disabilities
Parents don't always know what is best for their disabled children
Mother defends hysterectomy for disabled daughter
March 2007
Prolapse of judgment?
Ann Robinson
Camilla to have hysterectomy
February 2007
A duchess confesses
Zoe Williams
News in brief
August 2006
Consultant denies misconduct
A patient died in her hospital bed the day after what was an 'ill-judged' hysterectomy performed by a consultant gynaecologist, a panel of the General Medical Council heard yesterday.
March 2006
Hysterectomy inquiry reveals 25-year scandal of silence
A rogue consultant removed the wombs of 129 women because his work went unchallenged for almost a quarter of a century, according to a report into one of Ireland's worst medical scandals.
January 2005
The point of no return
Jaq Bayles had always known she didn't want children - but nothing had prepared her for how she would feel after having a hysterectomy...
October 2004
Women left in dark on surgery that saves fertility
Revolutionary womb operation rules out need for hysterectomy.
