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  • Australia’s eSafety umpire issues legal warning to Twitter amid rise in online hate

  • Health bosses warn of heart disease emergency in England

    Charity calls for prioritisation of NHS heart care after nearly 100,000 excess deaths since March 2020

  • One in 10 health workers in England had suicidal thoughts during pandemic

    Survey shows the impact of Covid on frontline workers, with one in 25 NHS staff attempting suicide for first time

  • One in five women conceive naturally after having baby via fertility treatment

  • More than 5,000 mental health patients sent over 62 miles for treatment

  • UK’s best known retailers top list of firms fined £7m over pay breaches

  • ‘Dramatic rise’ in number of women freezing eggs in UK

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Interviews & opinion

  • Why are Australians paying so much for alcohol-free drinks that aren’t taxed?

    Cameron Shackell for the Conversation

    • ‘We need to talk about the end’: Wendy Mitchell on living positively with Alzheimer’s

    • The pill’s effects on women can be devastating. We need better information, now

      Kate Muir

    • David Furnish on wiping out HIV/Aids, the ‘weaponisation’ of LGBTQ+ rights … and the day Putin called

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In mind: focus on mental health

  • ‘Doctor Peyo’: the horse comforting cancer patients in Calais – in pictures

     

  • 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

  • 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

  • My working week: ‘I wonder who buys sex from the vulnerable women I try to help’

  • My working week: 'Julie is disabled and the only one in her team made redundant'

  • My working week: 'A patient arrives at my GP surgery with Covid symptoms'

  • My working week: 'Fiona's son was taken into care a year ago. Today is his birthday'

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Health

  • Roe v Wade
    Tracking where abortion laws stand in every state

  • Emma Brockes

    Opinion
    IVF, egg storage, fertility ‘windows’: I’m so relieved all that is behind me

    Emma Brockes

  • Sleep
    The perfect power nap to keep you alert

    Brief letters: Daytime napping | Pension pennies | Eating the rainbow | Life and Lidl | Skiing or skiving?

  • A year without Roe
    The people turning to birth control after the fall of Roe: ‘I feel a little safer’

  • Austerity
    Children raised under UK austerity shorter than European peers, study finds

  • Health & wellbeing
    Can you wear sweaty gym clothes twice? How to join the no-wash revolution

  • A moment that changed me
    A moment that changed me: I talked a man out of jumping off a bridge – and it made me confront a harsh reality

Blood, sweat & tears

  • 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

  • I tried to take my life five years ago. Now I'm grateful to be alive

    Anonymous surgeon

  • There's a patient I'll never forget. Their burns and screams still haunt me

    Anonymous

  • My husband is in a care home. I visit him for 30 minutes each week in a car park

    Anonymous

  • 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

  • Sue Bailey obituary

  • ‘I live in fear of debt collectors’: disabled people in England tell of toll of soaring care costs

  • Melanie Phillips obituary

  • Volunteers can’t fix the crisis in social care

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Central & local government

  • New guidance needed to stop ministers putting friends on Whitehall boards

    • 180 pupils a day in England given special needs support plan

    • Frome unenthusiastic about byelection ‘nobody wants’

    • Safety checks run down and boom time for criminals: this is why the UK is becoming the ‘dustbin of Europe’

      Polly Toynbee
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Voluntary sector

  • Sir Ben Helfgott obituary

  • Deprived UK towns still feeling benefits of Tony Blair’s anti-poverty fund

  • ‘Bittersweet’: bereaved charity founder honoured in King’s birthday list

  • Nigel Mellor obituary

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Housing

  • The Guardian view on mortgages: the crunch is coming

    • Who’s unhoused in California? Largest study in decades upends myths

    • Fixing UK’s draughty homes could add £40bn to economy, says Citizens Advice

    • Sunak says no extra help with mortgages as fixed rates climb to 6%

    • Homelessness charities fear target to end rough sleeping by 2024 will be missed

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