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A major cause of the fall in healthy life expectancy (People in UK spend fewer years in good health than a decade ago, study finds, 27…

Here’s a confession that may alarm faithful readers of this newsletter: I am an environment reporter who does not love nature.Before I get cancelled, yes, I…

More than 500 people have received potentially life-saving care thanks to Martha’s rule, which gives hospital patients the right to seek a second opinion about their…

For six awful days last summer, as her father, David, got progressively sicker in the cardiac ward of the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford, Karen Osenton…

From George Clooney in ER to Noah Wyle in The Pitt, emergency department doctors have long been popular heroes. But will it soon be time to…

‘After my son’s birth, I was a different person’Lana Jones, midwife, former principal dancer at the Australian Ballet I loved taking the audience on a journey…

A new tool that can shed light on who is most at risk of obesity-related diseases could help identify people who would benefit most from weight-loss…

Madeleine Finlay sits down with co-host and Guardian science editor Ian Sample to talk through three eye-catching stories from the week, including the news that the…

A non-invasive scan for endometriosis has shown promising results in a trial, boosting hopes for far quicker diagnosis.The trial, which included 19 women with the condition,…

Governments in Europe should impose much higher taxes on alcohol and unhealthy food to tackle the continent’s 284,000 deaths a year from liver disease, experts say.Taxes…