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  • Foot of a baby visible poking out from a white blanket

    Poor foetal monitoring a leading cause of death in babies in England, review finds

  • Finance minister Katy Gallagher

    Domestic violence workers: states told to hire faster as Labor’s 500 staff pledge hit by major delays

    Federal government eager to see program up and running but only a fraction of the promised staff have been hired
  • Kris Hallenga and her twin sister Maren Hallenga during a flashmob for breast cancer charity CoppaFeel!

    Tell us: how have you been affected by the CoppaFeel! breast cancer awareness campaign?

    We would like to hear from young women who benefited from the campaign and spotted the early signs of breast cancer
  • A doctor points to PET scan results that are part of a previous study on Alzheimer's disease.

    Scientists claim to have found another distinct genetic form of Alzheimer’s

  • Public toilets in Windsor, Berkshire.

    How the single-sex toilet law in England will work

  • Kris Hallenga sitting among wildflowers on a coastal cliff in Cornwall

    CoppaFeel! breast cancer charity founder Kris Hallenga dies aged 38

  • Richard Carpenter

    Coroner issues warning over year-round ambulance delays in England

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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

  • Dr Hilary Cass.

    Scotland
    Cass review ‘absolutely’ not unfair, author tells Scottish parliament

  • Ranjana Srivastava

    Opinion
    What is the most important word in medicine? It is not what we teach doctors

    Ranjana Srivastava
  • Lucy Pasha-Robinson

    Opinion
    The science on endometriosis is finally breaking through – so why do treatments feel stuck in the past?

    Lucy Pasha-Robinson

  • Race
    ‘Stark disparities’: why black mothers are more at risk of perinatal mental illness in England

  • Race
    Black mothers twice as likely as white mothers to be hospitalised with perinatal mental illness

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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

  • A paper chain of a family shown in silhouette against a wall

    Children in danger as NSW child protection reaches crisis point, striking caseworkers say

  • Torsten Bell

    Spending cuts are often false economies that end up costing society dearly

    Torsten Bell
  • 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

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Central & local government

  • Leeds city councillor Mothin Ali

    Leeds Green party councillor says sorry for comments about Gaza conflict

  • Justine Greening

    Tories must face hard truths: Reform-lite wreckers like Braverman are why the public just don’t like us

    Justine Greening
  • Andy Burnham

    I will build at least 10,000 council homes. As for right to buy – suspend it for new properties

    Andy Burnham
  • Andy Street

    The Guardian view on the local elections: an anti-Tory landslide points to the end of an era

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Voluntary sector

  • Walkers pass by the the disused 19th-century ironstone Kilns at Bank Top near Rosedale Abbey in the North York Moors in North Yorkshire in England.

    How to pair up with blind people for walks and holidays

  • A girl holds food items and looks at the camera as women look on behind her.

    ‘A colonial mindset’: why global aid agencies need to get out of the way

  • Steve Gallant, 47, and Darryn Frost, 43: they are standing in the middle of a residential street of two-storey brick terrace houses in Northampton. Gallant is bald and wears a white Ben Sherman polo shirt; Frost has short light brown hair and a neat beard and wears a black sweater and jeans.

    Fishmongers’ Hall heroes in housing project for ex-inmates

  • Protesters clashing with police officers

    ‘They hear a bang at the door and it’s the Home Office’: threat of being ‘disappeared’ haunts asylum seekers amid Rwanda crackdown

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Housing

  • European symbol graphic

    Fix Europe’s housing crisis or risk fuelling the far-right, UN expert warns

    • A banner hanging from the upper windows of building on a busy street in Amsterdam bears the message ‘fuck the housing market’. Pedestrians and cyclists pass by in the foreground

      ‘Everything’s just … on hold’: the Netherlands’ next-level housing crisis

    • View of Pikk Street in the Old City of Tallinn, Estonia

      Higher costs and cramped conditions: the impact of Europe’s housing crisis

    • Signs asking people to respect locals and that 'Lahaina is not for sale' are seen on the side of the Lahaina Bypass, in Lahaina, Hawaii.

      Hawaii to limit vacation rentals in response to tight housing market

    • Sue Elliott-Nicholls

      My two adult kids have had to move back home. Should I be charging them rent – and if so, how much?

      Sue Elliott-Nicholls
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