Labour plans to digitise the NHS “red book” that parents use for their children’s medical records as part of a
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The financial, physical and emotional toll of being an unpaid carer | Social care
You’re right to praise Kate Garraway for shining a light on the financial, physical and emotional toll of being an
Continue readingWhen cleanliness is not next to godliness | Health
Your correspondent Jenny Brook is right (Letters, 31 March), the article about cleaning was absurd (Have you washed your toothbrush
Continue readingThe muscle miracle: can I build enough in my 60s to make it to 100 – even though I’ve never weight-trained? | Health
I’m not good with unexpected questions. There’s always a chance I’ll blurt out something crass, irrelevant or just plain dumb.
Continue readingMaking people better, not demonising them, will solve Britain’s sickness problem | Torsten Bell
In policy making, as in life, the goal is to recognise when you have a problem, without getting it out
Continue readingA Necessary Kindness by Juno Carey review – demystifying abortion: an insider’s account of its long and painful history | Society books
It isn’t long into reading Juno Carey’s book that you realise it also serves as a meditation on women and
Continue readingWhen the right to die becomes the duty to die, who will step in to save those most at risk? | Sonia Sodha
It’s rare to get a politician who openly admits they are torn on an issue, but in recent days there
Continue reading‘I’d never been bitten by a tick before’: why the little blood-sucking pest is getting us into a panic | Life and style
Last summer I took my family on a walk through the woodlands that surround the hamlet of Ebernoe, in Sussex.
Continue readingFrom HS2 to the NHS, Britain doesn’t cut costs. Disastrously, it just cuts corners | Phillip Inman
As governments across the world assess their responses to four years of successive economic calamities, it is clear the UK’s
Continue readingNew antibiotic class effective against multidrug-resistant bacteria
Scientists at Uppsala University have discovered a new class of antibiotics with potent activity against multi-drug resistant bacteria, and have
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