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  • Children playing with a multicoloured fidget toy

    NHS England to review ADHD services amid concerns about rise in diagnoses

  • Two boys playing online games

    Video game firms found to have broken own UK industry rules on loot boxes

    Government criticised over decision to let companies self-regulate gambling-style features after expert finds numerous breaches
  • A woman wearing a white coat smokes a cigarette outside a bar

    Ireland’s smoking ban 20 years on: how an unheralded civil servant triumphed against big tobacco

    Tom Power led an alliance that brought about the pioneering health initiative which has since been adopted by more than 70 countries – and has saved countless lives
  • Children sitting on a wall

    Obese children twice as likely to develop multiple sclerosis, study suggests

  • Rishi Sunak and Michael Gove

    Sunak and Gove accused of caving in to lobbying in favour of landlords

  • Eva Tennent

    Girl, 10, ‘left inoperable’ after planned NHS surgery cancelled seven times

  • A nurse preparing a Covid-19 vaccine.

    Cost of private Covid jabs risks widening health inequalities, experts warn

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Interviews & opinion

  • 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
  • Eva Wiseman

    Live to 120? I’d rather go for quality not quantity of life …

    Eva Wiseman
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  • 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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  • 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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  • A map highlights the number of pharmacies closed as campaigners from the Association of Independent Multiple Pharmacies protest outside parliament in London

    Health policy
    Nearly 1,000 pharmacies in England closed since 2017, with poorer areas more affected

  • A band-aid on a person

    Health
    ‘People assume you’re crazy for doing it’: the Melbourne clinic infecting healthy patients

    Australia’s first unit dedicated to human challenge trials for novel vaccines and treatments has opened. But what are the ethics of infecting healthy people – and who would do it?
  • John Crace

    Heart attack
    Wishing John Crace and the NHS a good recovery

    Letters: Readers respond to an article by the Guardian’s parliamentary sketch writer about his heart attack, and share similar stories of their own
  • Alzheimer's
    Dementia is not a living death – I’m very much alive

  • US news
    ‘Wellness bro’ Andrew Huberman is accused of lying to women he dates. Does it matter to his millions of listeners?

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • 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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  • Finley Boden

    Finley Boden ‘should have been one of the most protected children’, finds review

  • Home Office sign

    Home Office granted 275 care worker certificates of sponsorship after ‘false’ application

  • senior women sitting in wheelchairs in a nursing home

    Government has brought adult social care in England ‘to its knees’, MPs say

  • Belong Chester resident Margaret Darby with nursery toddler Jacob Farrell-Ogunyemi.

    What happens when you put a nursery in a care home?

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Central & local government

  • Him with two horses

    Khan tells Labour mayoral election still a two-horse race

  • Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner smile as they stand in a group of people

    Labour looks to local polls as dress rehearsal for general election

  • portrait of the two of them, England flag in the background

    Laurence Fox’s London mayor hopes end after errors filling in forms

  • Keir Starmer at the launch of Labour's local election campaign

    Starmer says he cannot ‘turn the taps on’ to fix council funding crisis

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  • Chocolate Easter eggs in shop

    Orkney shop owner raises £3,000 for charity after Easter egg error

  • Chris Lewis receiving his award from the Guinness World Records’ managing editor Adam Millward on beach with other lifeguards in background

    Bournemouth man sets Guinness World Record as longest-serving lifeguard

  • Salma (not her real name) hugs her daughter

    Fleeing bloodshed in Gaza, Palestinians arriving in Australia find they have no place to call home

  • A Cancer Research shop in north London

    British public donated record £13.9bn to charity in 2023

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  • Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer during the Labour Party local elections campaign launch at the Black Country & Marches Institute of Technology in Dudley

    Starmer launches Labour local election campaign and defends ‘difficult decisions’ over dropped pledges– as it happened

    • Jason Okundaye

      Living with my mum has been a blessing – but young adults should not be forced back into the family home

      Jason Okundaye
    • Angela Rayner

      Police review decision not to investigate Angela Rayner after Tory complaint

    • To Let and For Sale signs

      AI can help us find the right policies to fix the housing crisis

    • Margaret Thatcher, the prime minister, after she handed over a copy of the deeds of 39 Amersham Road, Harold Hill, to the Greater London Council's 12,000th council house buyer, James Patterson and his wife Maureen. With them are their three children, twins Vernon and Martin and 16-year-old Leisa.

      Right to buy is an abuse of public funds for political ends

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