* News: Couple jailed after using trafficked girls in huge prostitution ring
* Features: Britain's foster care crisis
* Comment: We will defend the state, say Douglas Alexander and Ed Miliband

• News: Doctor Daniel Ubani unlawfully killed overdose patient

• Features: I don't care what the researchers say, I was a preghead, says Zoe Williams

• Gallery: Eight months with London's Air Ambulance

* News: Move towards 'more detailed' hospital performance indicators
* Features: Is small government best for society?
* Comment: There's no place like a council home to damage your health, says Clare Allan

• News: Pope condemns UK gay equality laws

• Features: Herbal medicine is under threat

• Comment: Free care sounds nice, but why redistribute to the rich, asks Polly Toynbee

• News: Smokers to face doorway ban in new public health policy

• Features: How the falling birth rate will affect global demographics

• Blog: What a social worker thinks of Mariah Carey's film portrayal of social work and sexual abuse

• News: Minister calls for wider flexible working rights

• Comment: Hands off our A&E, says Michele Hanson

• News: Leak reveals scale of NHS cuts and 'torpedos' jobs guarantee

• Features: Fathers to get six months' paternity leave

• Blog: Care for older people is not all about keeping them out of hospital, says Stephen Burke

* News: Attorney general to review Edlington torture case sentences
* Feature: Is politics delving too deeply into family life?
* Comment: We should follow the lead of the US in the battle against obesity

* News: Britain in 2010 is more tolerant
* Comment: Martin Amis, the ageing provocateur

* News: Tories back plan to extend 'Sarah's law'
* Feature: Why children need more sleep
* Comment: Sarah Boseley's new global health blog

• News: Obese patients 'encouraged to put on weight to qualify for surgery'

• Blog: Ideal family set-up moves to centre of political debate

* News: Couple accused of starving girl
* Feature: How Asian women made trade union history and shattered stereotypes
* Comment: Drug users' voices must be heard in the battle against addiction

* News: Doncaster child services 'dysfunctional'
* Features: Start running and watch your brain grow, say scientists
* Comment: Reading your way out of depression

• News: Airport scanners may breach human rights, watchdog says

• Features: Forced to choose eating or heating, family burns furniture to keep warm

• News: Loan sharks target poorest with 825% loans

• Features: Why men use prostitutes

• Comment: Labour has failed on child poverty, says Theresa May

• News: Government has failed on its dementia promises, says spending watchdog

• Video: Watch an anti-bullying cinema ad

• Blog: E-markets could build a flexible local workforce

· News: Government backs banning sunbeds for under-18s
· Feature: Does Canada's former prime minister hold the key to reducing Britain's budget deficit?
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