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  • Inga Rublite, right, with her twin sister Inese Briede, both smiling

    ‘It should have been safe’: twin of woman found under coat in A&E says death avoidable

  • A woman vaping

    Women should give up vaping if they want to get pregnant, study suggests

    Research finds hormone that indicates fertility at lower levels in vapers and tobacco smokers
  • Loїs Williams at Rada, 1945

    Loїs Williams obituary

    Other lives: Actor in rep and at Stratford who qualified as a social worker and was a longtime human rights campaigner
  • Silhouette of an unrecognisable person looking out of a window blind.

    ‘I felt immense shame’: one man’s experience of a female stalker

  • Martin Bax Ambit covers from his son Tim Bax

    Martin Bax obituary

  • An infant receives a routine vaccination at First Georgia Physician Group Pediatrics in Fayetteville, Ga., Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. The vaccinations that U.S. schoolchildren are required to get to hold terrible diseases like polio, hepatitis, tetanus and whooping cough in check are way behind schedule this year, threatening further complications to a school year already marred by COVID-19. (AP Photo/Angie Wang)

    Tell us: have you been affected by whooping cough?

  • Dr jenny Vaughan

    Jenny Vaughan obituary

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Interviews & opinion

  • 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
  • Lisa Mosconi

    Neurology professor Lisa Mosconi: ‘Menopause is a renovation project on the brain’

  • Hilary Osborne

    I was stunned when diagnosed with cancer. Then I had to work out how to tell my son

    Hilary Osborne
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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

  • King Charles and Queen Camilla talk to each other, arm in arm, in a garden

    King Charles III
    King Charles to return to public duties while continuing cancer treatment

  • Ecstasy pills in a man's hand

    Drugs policy
    MDMA trials are showing it has promise as a psychiatric medicine

    Letters: Readers respond to a letter which said that MDMA is not helpful in mental health care
  • Devi Sridhar

    Opinion
    American cows now have bird flu, too – but it’s time for planning, not panic

    Devi Sridhar

  • Health policy
    ‘I would not be alive’: anger at Sunak plan to strip GPs of sicknote powers

  • Childbirth
    Becoming a mother was impossibly hard during Covid. Has anything changed since?

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

  • Silhouette of woman by a window

    UK policy denying visas to children of care workers faces legal challenge

  • Department for Work and Pensions sign on the exterior wall of Caxton House in London, as two people walk past

    Hailed as a hero and then sacked: the carer’s allowance whistleblower

  • Angela van den Bogerd arrives at the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry

    Ex-Post Office executive says she does not recall email telling her Horizon terminals could be remotely accessed – as it happened

  • Mother and child are sitting on windowsill.

    Children in care – there’s one in every classroom

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Central & local government

  • Sadiq Khan speaks during a visit to Stoke Newington school in north London: he is pictured standing in front of a wall of colourful pictures and is wearing a brown quilted anorak under a dark blue jacket

    Sadiq Khan urges young Londoners to vote or risk ‘repeat of Brexit and Trump victory’

  • Mayoral candidates over a map of the east Midlands

    ‘We end up with nothing’: east Midlands mayoral candidates say role could transform region

  • An artist's impression of a tall block on metal stilts over a Georgian building.

    ‘Ludicrous’ plan to build skyscraper over Georgian Birmingham building rejected

  • Tony Travers

    Elected mayors have made their mark, but still Westminster hogs power. That’s a national embarrassment

    Tony Travers
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Voluntary sector

  • How much am I bid? … Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon in Love Actually.

    Love Actually, Barbie and Saltburn memorabilia auctioned for War Child

  • Aerial view of large house and outbuildings

    Captain Tom Moore’s Bedfordshire house on sale for £2.25m

  • Marathon runners passing under a bridge

    ‘Glorious day’: London Marathon organisers hail 2024 event as records fall

  • 'Follyfoot' TV -<br>Editorial use only Mandatory Credit: Photo by ITV/Shutterstock (1003474aa) 'Follyfoot' TV - 1973 - Four Legged Hat - Dora [Gillian Blake], Ron Stryker [Christian Rodska] 'Follyfoot' TV -

    Letter: Christian Rodska obituary

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Housing

  • three side by side images of apartment photos that might be seen on social media, with captions advertising rooms with disclaimers like "must be ok with rabbits", "must be ok with five other housemates if anyone asks please say you are my cousin visiting on a foreign exchange program", "very cheap deal as long as you can water my plants and do my laundry"

    ‘Must love dogs and rude roommates’: the scramble to get around New York’s Airbnb crackdown

    • ‘To let’ signs dot a street in south London.

      Thursday briefing: How Michael Gove’s ‘new deal’ for renters went sour

    • German Chancellor Olaf Scholz with Rishi Sunak after a press conference in Berlin.

      Sunak claims defence spending plan won’t affect government’s ability to cut taxes – as it happened

    • Angela Rayner speaking at PMQs

      Angela Rayner tells ministers to focus on no-fault evictions, not her house sale

    • Angela Rayner in a hard hat and hi-vis jacket at a construction site

      Could a row over a council house bring down Angela Rayner?

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