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  • A swab in a plastic test tube

    Women in England could be offered DIY cervical screening tests on NHS

  • A GP measures a man's blood pressure in his surgery.

    Call for action on UK men’s health as 133,000 die early every year

    Movember says British men have worse health than comparable countries and suffer stark regional inequalities
  • HMP Wandsworth prison

    Rishi Sunak ‘risked breaching legal responsibilities over prison crisis’

    Exclusive: leaked letters said without urgent action the system in England and Wales would reach ‘critical failure’
  • V. Craig Jordan OBE, PhD, DSc, FMedSci, a Professor of Breast Medical Oncology, and Professor of Molecular and Cellular Oncology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at his home in Houston, Texas on Aug.8, 2018. Dr. Jordan pioneered research into using Tamoxifen to treat breast cancer. He is a collector of books, military memorabilia and maps. © 2018 Robert Seale/All rights reserved.

    Craig Jordan obituary

  • When the Afghan Taliban ceased production of heroin, global supplies were depleted, with new, powerful synthetic opioids like fentanyl and nitazenes flooding in to fill the vacuum.

    12:12

    Is a new opioid crisis about to devastate the UK? – video

  • Simon and Oli Dunn stand behind counter of chocolate shop

    ‘Grey belt is a misnomer’: Stockport divided on Labour’s housing plans

  • An older man sitting on the edge of a bed holding a cane

    Hospital discharges limiting home care in England, councils say

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Interviews & opinion

  • Eva Wiseman

    We need more than trompe-l’oeil to fix our housing crisis

    Eva Wiseman
  • Weathered-looking white woman wearing pink and blue sunhat holds up bright orange piece of paper, with tents on green grass behind her.

    ‘Terrifying and dystopian’: the dark realities of the supreme court’s homelessness decision

  • Tony Sinclair, who formerly lived in a tent outside a hospital in central London

    ‘My state pension was £880 – and my rent was £1,000’: how a 70-year-old man became homeless in Britain

  • Marjolein Robertson standing in front of a wall hanging with colourful circular pattern.

    The period that almost killed me: ‘My mam was told, if you take her home, she won’t last the night’

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In mind: focus on mental health

  • Peyo the horse licks the hands of Roger, a patient at the palliative care centre at Calais Hospital.

    ‘Doctor Peyo’: the horse comforting cancer patients in Calais – in pictures

  • illustration

    An illness in the shadows: life with borderline personality disorder

    BPD is one of the mental illnesses we still know least about, but now there is hope of a treatment
  • Yoni Yehuda, an Israeli psychotherapist, with Jack Daniels.

    Cats, camels and a Jesus lizard: the rise of animal-assisted therapy

    Once considered eccentric, using animals in psychotherapy is becoming popular as research reveals benefits
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My working week

  • A woman waits in the shadows

    My working week: ‘I wonder who buys sex from the vulnerable women I try to help’

  • ‘Minor changes make a big difference for disabled people.’

    My working week: 'Julie is disabled and the only one in her team made redundant'

  • GPs have had to adapt patient care during the pandemic.

    My working week: 'A patient arrives at my GP surgery with Covid symptoms'

  • ‘Faith feels lost after the removal of her children. So much of what she knows about herself is as a mother.’ Picture posed by model.

    My working week: 'Fiona's son was taken into care a year ago. Today is his birthday'

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Health

  • Supporters and opponents of a proposed ballot measure to scale back Arkansas' abortion ban hold signs outside the old Supreme Court chamber at the state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. Friday, July 5, 2024. Organizers submitted petitions to try and get the proposals on the November ballot. (AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo)

    Arkansas
    Arkansas official rejected valid abortion ballot signatures, lawsuit claims

  • Composite image showing a map of Australia with inset imagery of houses, someone breaking into a car, doctors and people catching a train

    The Crunch
    Quiz: what’s getting better for Australians today, and what’s getting worse?

    How well can you pick the trend for 10 measures ranging from youth crime to daily commute times?
  • Doctor and patient in a consulting room at a GP surgery

    GPs
    To save the NHS, Labour must consult GPs, not echo chambers

    Letter: Dr Seema Haider calls for primary care policy to be created by experts in primary care, pointing to previous reform by Lord Darzi that ended in predictable failure

  • Opinion
    20,000 female condoms, 200,000 male condoms, 10,000 dental dams: will Paris 2024 be the sexiest Olympics ever?

    Arwa Mahdawi

  • Opinion
    When a loved one was dying in India, the advice I gave to my family was not what they expected

    Ranjana Srivastava

  • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
    ADHD digital test approved for NHS use in England and Wales

Blood, sweat & tears

  • Patient receiving chemotherapy

    Watching my cancer patients go through treatment alone is heartbreaking

    Lucy Gossage
    Covid-19 has made this year tougher for those experiencing treatment and those of us who work in cancer care
  • Surgery

    I tried to take my life five years ago. Now I'm grateful to be alive

    Anonymous surgeon
  • Emergency service ambulance with blue lights flashing

    There's a patient I'll never forget. Their burns and screams still haunt me

    Anonymous
  • A protestor outside the Scottish parliament building

    My husband is in a care home. I visit him for 30 minutes each week in a car park

    Anonymous
  • Catherine Pointer University of Southampton general hospital

    I was diagnosed with cancer at 14. Now I work alongside a doctor who treated me

    Catherine Pointer
  • Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson

    I'm disabled but was told I won't receive critical care if I get Covid. It's terrifying

    Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson
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Social care

  • Nurse Leslie Cunich gives resident Norma Buttris’s hand a squeeze after helping her drink in a recreation room at Adina Care, Cootamundra

    Aged care homes accused of ‘short-changing’ Australians as nearly two-thirds fail to meet care-minute targets

  • Silhouetted male pushing an anonymous person in a wheelchair along a seafront as the sun sets behind them

    England’s healthcare watchdog apologises over ‘new regulatory approach’

  • (FILES) This file photo taken on March 18, 2011 shows a woman, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, walking in a corridor in a retirement house in Angervilliers, eastern France. For decades now, soaring population growth and ageing rates have been forecast to ignite a global explosion of Alzheimer's, the memory- and freedom-robbing disease afflicting mainly 65-plussers. But an unexpected, and hopeful, trend may be emerging. / AFP PHOTO / Sébastien BOZONSEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP/Getty Images

    ‘The grief and loss is hard to bear’: the cruelty of Alzheimer’s disease

  • The Children's Inquiry at Southwark Playhouse Elephant.

    The Children’s Inquiry review – exhilarating political musical about kids in care

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Central & local government

  • Robot kicks human into a hole filled with money. Hole is a motherboard chip

    TechScape: Want to know how AI will affect government and politics? The bots have the answers

  • Labour Cuts

    We are public sector workers – this is how more cuts would wreck our NHS, courts, councils and universities

    Emma Vincent Miller, Catherine Fletcher, Minesh Parekh, Rachel Clarke and Anonymous
  • Stuart Weir, journalist and democracy campaigner

    Stuart Weir obituary

  • Michael Heseltine, former Conservative deputy leader, in Liverpool.

    Much of Michael Heseltine’s advice to Angela Rayner is good, but he is wrong about local councils

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Voluntary sector

  • Ampleforth College

    Ampleforth inquiry finds alleged serious abuse against pupils in last 10 years

  • A prison officer walks across an empty landing of a prison

    Labour must avoid release of high-risk offenders in prison plans, charity warns

  • A multicoloured screenprint of Kate Moss

    Top UK auction house told to stop taking buyer’s premium for charity sales

  • Oslo 19861125 Leah Levin i Oslo for å snakke om barnearbeid. Foto: Svein E. Furulund / Aftenposten / NTB scanpix Fysisk loc. 77.00

    Leah Levin obituary

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Housing

  • Angela Rayner and Keir Starmer stand on scaffolding surrounding a house. They are wearing hard hats and hi-vis jackets

    Mandatory housing targets at core of economy-focused king’s speech

    • Newly built homes in a residential estate in England.

      How Labour can achieve its target of 1.5m new homes

    • US President Joe Biden departs the White House<br>epa11480544 US President Joe Biden walks across the South Lawn to depart the White House by Marine One, in Washington, DC, USA, 15 July 2024. Biden travels to Las Vegas, Nevada. EPA/MICHAEL REYNOLDS

      Biden housing plan seeks to curb rent increases by penalizing landlords

    • Kwajo Tweneboa

      The secret social housing scandal: when your parent dies – and you are evicted in days

      Kwajo Tweneboa
    • Waterloo Sunset.

      Waterloo Sunset review – inside an oasis of affordable living

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