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  • Weight-loss injection pen with cap on.

    Weight-loss jabs linked to reduced risk of 42 conditions including dementia

  • Wes Streeting speaks in the Commons

    Work on some of Boris Johnson’s ‘40 new hospitals’ will not start until 2039

    Health secretary calls Tory plan ‘a work of fiction’ as Lib Dems accuse Labour of a ‘double betrayal’ of the public
  • An elderly man holding a walking stick

    Share your experience of trying to secure in-patient hospice care in the UK

    We want to hear from people who have tried to secure care in a hospice and what the process has been like
  • A woman in a wheelchair uses a ramp

    Overhaul ‘unsustainable’ incapacity benefits system, Lords committee urges

  • A man shows the work and pensions secretary, Liz Kendall, some carpentry work as she visits a skills centre in London.

    Can Labour cut welfare spending and still be seen as a party of social justice?

  • (L to r) Consultant neurosurgeon Asim Sheikh, patient Ruvimbo Kaviya, biomedical engineer Lisa Ferrie and facial surgeon Jiten Parmar.

    Medics remove tumour using keyhole surgery through eye socket in UK first

  • A woman walks towards a hospital entrance surrounded by blue hoarding

    Johnson plan to build 40 new hospitals ‘unachievable’, Streeting told

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Interviews & opinion

  • Pasco Ashton

    Speak up, man: how talking circles are supporting a healthier masculinity

  • Alex Partridge

    ‘It brought out the most vile side of lad culture’: Unilad founder Alex Partridge on online hate, alcoholism and ADHD

  • James Collier

    ‘I get hate from both sides – vegans and carnivores’: James Collier on UPFs, emotional eating and why he created Huel

  • Caroline Darian

    Caroline Darian, daughter of Gisèle Pelicot, speaks: ‘How can you rebuild when your father is the worst sexual predator in decades?’

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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

  • Nigel Farage at a Trump rally in November 2024.

    Politics
    Farage claims chance he could be PM within four years is up to 25% – as it happened

  • a woman smiles in front of a floral background

    Planned Parenthood
    Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood, dies at 67

    Texas-born activist who spent lifetime advocating for abortion rights died after a battle with brain cancer
  • Stress eating

    Is it true that …
    Is it true that … stress makes you gain weight?

    Food quells anxieties, but is a short-term fix that leads to excess weight. Finding other ways to relieve stress is preferable

  • Opinion
    I’m an A&E nurse – and in my hospital right now, we can’t give patients the dignified care they need

    Susie

  • The Audio Long Read
    ‘Look, they’re getting skin!’: are we right to strive to save the world’s tiniest babies? – podcast

  • Neuroscience
    Brain implant that could boost mood by using ultrasound to go under NHS trial

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

  • John Harris

    Shut away and ignored: thousands of disabled adults are at the frontier of the human rights struggle

    John Harris
  • Yvette Cooper in the Commons

    Police fear ‘rightwing driven’ reaction to grooming gangs will harm victims

  • Keir Starmer

    Starmer urged to prioritise child sexual exploitation victims

  • Silhouette of woman and child in hallway.

    Parental mental health biggest cause of child protection referrals in England

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Central & local government

  • Cllr Jaymey McIvor

    Ex-Tory candidate accused of sending unsolicited image of his ‘private parts’

  • A tall 18th-century, six storey townhouse built from light stone

    Equity urges Bristol city council to drop cuts to arts and culture budget

  • Polly Toynbee

    Labour has been sucked into the WFH culture war. It should know better

    Polly Toynbee
  • Interior View, Centre Hall, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Finnieston, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom<br>2RP2TJ8 Interior View, Centre Hall, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Finnieston, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

    Glasgow needs an economy strong enough to sustain its heritage

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Voluntary sector

  • a close up of a car covered in pink fire retardant

    The landlord and the LA fires: how my friend’s loss revealed a new hierarchy of who gets help

  • A scientist works in the immunology and microbiology area at KEMRI-Wellcome Trust laboratories in Kilifi, Kenya.

    Wellcome Trust charity criticised over £11m in payouts to investment team

  • a woman accompanied by two children washes clothes among the ruins of houses

    Guardian and Observer charity appeal 2024 raises more than £1.7m

  • Sam Pyrah in a field.

    I was in despair about the environmental crisis. Then I volunteered to clean up my local park

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Housing

  • A crowd of people marching in a street with flags and a placard that reads 'tourists go home'

    ‘A vicious circle’: how the roof blew off Spain’s housing crisis

    • For sale and for rent signs outside terraced houses in a residential area of Nottingham.

      UK housing market ‘starts new year with a bang’, says Rightmove

    • A home burns during the Eaton fire in the Altadena area of Los Angeles county on 8 January.

      The perfect storm: why did LA’s wildfires explode out of control?

    • Boys stand near a damaged tent for displaced people, after an Israeli airstrike in Khan Younis, Gaza, on 17 January 2025.

      Gaza’s humanitarian crisis won’t end with the ceasefire

    • unscathed home next to incinerated home

      ‘It was built for this’: how design helped spare some homes from the LA wildfires

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