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Society

  • Women in group therapy holding hands in unity.

    Women live more years in ill-health than men, finds gender health gap study

  • A hand on a computer keyboard as a user plays an online game

    Online gamblers who lose £500 or more a month to face extra checks

    New measures will eventually also ban some features on online games, regulator for Great Britain says
  • NSW’s new coercive control awareness campaign.

    If NSW’s coercive control ads work, more funding will be needed as victims come forward, advocates say

    Awareness campaign ahead of law change features tagline ‘It’s not love, it’s coercive control. Know the signs of abuse’
  • Anthony Albanese, Amanda Rishworth, Michelle Rowland and Micaela Cronin.

    Australian government pledges almost $1bn to help women leave violent relationships

  • Sadiq Khan

    Untreated mental health issues too often leading to violent crimes, says Khan

  • A woman looking out of her window.

    Perimenopausal women have 40% higher risk of depression, study suggests

  • Prostate cancer trial<br>EMBARGOED TO 0001 WEDNESDAY MAY 1 File photo dated 05/06/2020 of a paramedic holding a test tube containing a blood sample. Methods of screening men for prostate cancer are set to be trialled in a bid to save thousands of lives in the UK each year. The £42 million project, known as Transform, has been hailed as "a pivotal moment in the history of prostate cancer research" by experts. It is also hoped the research will help men avoid harm from potentially unnecessary biopsies and treatment. Issue date: Wednesday May 1, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story HEALTH Prostate. Photo credit should read: Simon Dawson/PA Wire

    Prostate cancer screening methods trialled in ‘pivotal moment’

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Interviews & opinion

  • Dr Hilary Cass

    ‘Children are being used as a football’: Hilary Cass on her review of gender identity services

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    There is a perfect time to shower – and it’s not when you think

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Lisa Mosconi

    Neurology professor Lisa Mosconi: ‘Menopause is a renovation project on the brain’

  • Hilary Osborne

    I was stunned when diagnosed with cancer. Then I had to work out how to tell my son

    Hilary Osborne
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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

  • Three Kinder Surprise eggs in red and white foil with colourful lettering

    Jamie Oliver
    ‘Unethical’ junk food packaging manipulates children into craving sweets, report claims

  • A color-coded map of the US showing the status of each states' abortion laws

    Roe v Wade
    Tracking abortion laws across the United States

    Abortion is now banned in 14 states, while three have banned the procedure past roughly six weeks of pregnancy
  • Mel Stride and Rishi Sunak.

    Opinion
    Take it from a psychologist: Rishi Sunak’s callous crusade on welfare will have disastrous consequences

    Jay Watts
    Targeting people who need support for depression and anxiety will only make these growing problems worse, says Jay Watts, a clinical psychologist

  • Schools
    Badenoch claims girls developed UTIs due to lack of single-sex toilets at school

  • Contaminated blood scandal
    Ministers agree three-month deadline for UK infected blood compensation

  • Opinion
    I can truly see the case for assisted dying. But the horrific state of the NHS makes me question if it is the best idea

    Rachel Clarke

  • Water
    Rapidly rising levels of TFA ‘forever chemical’ alarm experts

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

  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    Fostering is getting a shot of much-needed millennial energy – just ask Kiri Pritchard-McLean

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • graphic image showing a school sign, ballot cards and a pencil, an ambulance, a police car, a cyclist, a pothole and a wheelie bin

    From potholes to planning: key issues in England’s 2 May local elections

  • A teenage girl sitting in a dark doorway with light coming from an adjoining room

    Vulnerable teenagers ‘dumped and abandoned’ in hotels by councils in England

  • A caregiver pushes a man in a wheelchair on footpath

    Work and pensions committee chair tells ministers to fix carer’s allowance issues

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Central & local government

  • Sadiq Khan clapping his hands in front of a group of young people waving Labour flags in a park

    Sadiq Khan calls Tories unpatriotic for ‘trying to do London down’

  • Rishi Sunak at prime minister's questions on 1 May.

    The Guardian view on policy and propaganda: desperate Tories are blurring the line

  • A postal vote is pushed through a letterbox

    I’ve been denied a vote in this week’s elections by a setup with no plan B

  • A graphic of random people and shadows symbolising people who will not vote

    ‘Voting is not on their radar’: lowest turnout predicted in poorest areas

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Voluntary sector

  • Adrian Chiles

    How do you describe the view to someone who can’t see? I couldn’t even do justice to a canal towpath

    Adrian Chiles
  • 1993 Phoenix Festival<br>Vince Power and family during 1993 Phoenix Festival at Phoenix Festival in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Fred Duval/FilmMagic)

    Letter: Vince Power obituary

  • Guide dog standing beside the road

    Guide Dogs UK blames cost of living crisis as it plans 160 redundancies

  • Five people in business clothes sit around a table

    UK charities hiring staff with ‘privilege not potential’, report author warns

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Housing

  • ‘They’ve got the car, the hat, the T-shirt. The apartment is the natural progression’ … the Aston Martin Residences.

    A 007 paradise – or lads holiday in Marbella? Inside Aston Martin’s lavish Miami penthouses

    • An abandoned akiya house is pictured in a small village in Miyoshi, Japan

      Akiya houses: why Japan has nine million empty homes

    • Mayor of London Sadiq Khan visiting a foundation in Brixton last week.

      UK politics: Labour’s Khan has 22-point lead over Tory rival in London mayoral race, poll suggests – as it happened

    • apartment buildings

      Could Vienna’s approach to affordable housing work in California?

    • Patrick Barry, 77, stands with a campaigner in front of a block of low-rise flats; there are banners on the steps and first-floor concrete walkways with messages including Retrofit Don't Demolish and Housing Rebellion

      Housing activists urge London mayor to save Clockwork Orange estate

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