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‘A really scary place for children’: English hospitals have chronic lack of health play staff
Analysis finds only 955 play professionals supporting 21 million child hospital admissions, leaving many traum...
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Women in England with incurable breast cancer to get life-extending drug on NHS
Thousands with HER2-low advanced breast cancer will have access to Enhertu after ministers strike deal on pric...
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The families facing a food crisis in school holidays
Letter: Andrew Forsey urges the government to restore the link between free school meals and the holiday activ...
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Twenty women had breasts removed unnecessarily during NHS cancer care
Patients among hundreds who suffered harm at County Durham and Darlington foundation trust’s breast unit
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Women with same health conditions as men ‘less likely to be offered active treatment’
Men with heart, kidney or liver conditions more likely to be offered intervention compared with women, global...
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Disabled people in UK need right to travel abroad, say MPs, after ‘ridiculous’ restrictions
Campaigners describe ‘brazenly discriminatory’ practices around funding from NHS care boards
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Researchers hope powerful new microscope will reveal ‘root cause’ of incurable bowel disease
No run-of-the-mill tech, ‘Curie’ operates at 10 times the resolution of conventional microscopy and could spur...
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‘Why was Mum in clothes you could wear in the winter?’: family seeks answers after care home heatstroke death
Thousands died because of this summer’s extreme hot weather – caused by the climate crisis. Anita Bazell, take...
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Tell us: has your medical cannabis prescription come from a private health provider?
We’d like to hear from people in the UK who have accessed medical cannabis from a private health provider and...
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NHS reports busiest ever summer as heatwaves drive up hospital admissions
Health secretary says extreme demand no longer confined to winter as service in England warns of knock-on effe...
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Drinking very hot drinks could triple risk of oesophageal cancer, study finds
Research finds temperature and amount of hot drinks consumed heightens possibility of developing disease
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‘Patients’ who pay $200,000 to be frozen after death are waiting to be reborn in an Australian shed
Exclusive: Southern Cryonics operates out of a shed in Holbrook in rural NSW. Experts say reanimation is ‘a dr...