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  • Junior doctors on strike in London

    Junior doctors’ strike could delay care for 100,000 NHS patients in England

  • Smiling baby aged six to nine months.

    Babbling babies may be warming up for speech, say scientists

    Squeals and growls tend to occur in groups, finds study of infants aged up to 13 months
  • Coach Xavi Valdez speaking with youth players participating in our "Mini Soccer" program. All Gender, ages 4-6.

    ‘Happiest I’ve ever seen her’: the sports teams giving trans kids a safe place to play

    Inclusive clubs provide a supportive environment for LGBTQ+ children amid growing antagonism toward transgender inclusion in athletics
  • A dog hiding its face

    ‘Seeing her hurt was more than I could bear’: the family pets left in limbo amid Australia’s domestic violence crisis

  • Heather Hunter

    Heather Hunter obituary

  • Lawrence Whalley

    Lawrence Whalley obituary

  • Little boy eating peanuts

    Giving young children peanut products cuts allergy risk, study finds

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Interviews & opinion

  • Author Ariane Beeston has written a book about her experience with post-partum psychosis. She is a former child protection caseworker and psychologist with NSW's Department of Communities and Justice. Sydney, NSW, Australia. 15 May 2024.

    I have taken babies from their mothers. After my son was born I feared it was my turn to be punished

    Ariane Beeston
  • Liz Carr in her documentary about assisted dying, Better Off Dead?

    ‘I’m fighting for the right to live’: Liz Carr on acting, friendship and her campaign against assisted dying

  • 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
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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

  • Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer poses for ‘selfies’ with student nurses and trainee medics during a visit to Three Counties medical school in Worcester.

    Immigration and asylum
    Labour has ‘no plans’ to allow health worker visas to include family members

  • Bill Lee

    Tennessee
    Tennessee governor signs bill penalizing adults who help minors get abortions

    Legislation also blocks adults from helping minors receive gender-affirming care without parental consent
  • a young girl wears a backpack in school

    US news
    US girls got their first periods increasingly earlier over the last 50 years, new study finds

    Trend is especially pronounced among Black, Hispanic and Asian participants, and those who report lower socioeconomic status

  • Opinion
    Louisiana’s move to criminalize abortion pills is cruel and medically senseless

    Moira Donegan

  • Our unequal earth
    As avian flu hops to cows and at least two humans, migrant farm workers are at risk

  • Global development
    Global pandemic treaty could be more than a year away after deadline missed

  • Tracey Emin
    The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’

  • Health policy
    Labour pledges to clear NHS waiting list backlog in England in five years

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    ‘We’re doing it by stealth’
    How Tesco is reformulating its much-loved meals to be healthier

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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

  • Report Claims Millions Of Children Suffer in "Rising Tide" Of UK Poverty<br>MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 04: A children's play area sits next to terraced homes in the Gorton area of Manchester on December 04, 2018 in Manchester, England. A report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has claimed that over four million children are now living in poverty in the UK. The state of the nation report, UK Poverty 2018, says that in an average school classroom of 30 pupils, nine are now living in poverty. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

    Our children’s services system is broken. This sharp rise in deprivation of liberty orders proves it

  • Wethersfield military base which houses asylum seekers: view at twilight of a tall wire fence with yellow lighting and barracks-style buildings, with a tree to one side and a pylon silhouetted behind. The sky is dark grey and cloudy. The scene looks bleak and ominous.

    National reckonings and public inquiries: what scandals come next?

  • The Guardian view on private equity and public services: this trend needs reversing

  • A Andrew Kasparis A full-time carer, looking after his mother

    ‘It feels like contempt’: DWP tells 85-year-old dementia patient to repay £13k

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Central & local government

  • The front facade of the Dolphin hotel in Southampton with actors in historic costume in front

    Jane Austen fans despair at student digs plan for hotel where she danced

  • Composite image of buildings that have been sold off, for sale signs, and falling coins

    Spas, bars and luxury hotels: how Britain’s historic buildings are being sold off to the highest bidder

  • cyclist entering an LTN

    Call for stricter rules to stop UK MPs repeating conspiracy theories

  • Simon Case, seen outdoors and wearing a waxed cotton jacket, pale blue shirt and dark blue tie; he has a thick but neat beard; there are brick buildings and trees seen in the background and he is smiling.

    Covid inquiry: the questions cabinet secretary Simon Case will be asked

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Voluntary sector

  • A person holds a basket with food items at Peckham Pantry in London.

    Social acceptance of food banks is a mark of Tory failure

  • Andrew Leigh

    Minister condemns rogue charities tricking elderly Australians into automatic donations

  • Boutique by Shelter charity shop in Highgate, London.

    Pa-rental guidance benefits charities

  • a Tesco checkout with Tesco bags for life

    Charities attack Tesco rules for evening-only collection of unwanted food

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Housing

  • Houses in Milton Keynes.

    Labour must beware the pitfalls of its new towns policy

    • David Ormandy

      David Ormandy obituary

    • Children play football outside the occupied Cissie Gool House in Woodstock, Cape Town.

      ‘People have died on the waiting lists’: South Africa’s housing crisis casts a shadow over election

    • View of road passing by stone houses in picturesque country village

      House price growth in rural areas outstrips towns in Great Britain

    • Social housing

      Public housing regularly being offered to people on NSW waitlist who have died

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