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13 July 2024

  • A family photo of a young girl and a man wearing a sombrero in a garden, on a red background

    The story of a heat death: David went to work in his new job on a French building site. By the end of the day he was dead

    He was keen to impress in his new job just as a heatwave was gripping the country. What can David Azevedo’s story tell us about the threat increasingly extreme weather poses to human health?

12 July 2024

  • A pharmacist stocks shelves at a chemist.

    Tell us: have you struggled with access to Covid-19 treatment?

  • (FILES) This file photo taken on March 18, 2011 shows a woman, suffering from Alzheimer's disease, walking in a corridor in a retirement house in Angervilliers, eastern France. For decades now, soaring population growth and ageing rates have been forecast to ignite a global explosion of Alzheimer's, the memory- and freedom-robbing disease afflicting mainly 65-plussers. But an unexpected, and hopeful, trend may be emerging. / AFP PHOTO / Sébastien BOZONSEBASTIEN BOZON/AFP/Getty Images

    ‘The grief and loss is hard to bear’: the cruelty of Alzheimer’s disease

  • Female Doctor Treating Patient

    Why testosterone is so important for women during menopause

  • Kate Bingham wearing an orange jacket and standing on some grass

    UK needs Covid-style push on dementia drugs, says ex-head of vaccine taskforce

  • Shelley Duvall obituary

  • MS patients in England offered 10-minute jab in place of infusions

  • Michael Mosley’s widow aims to ensure legacy after public response to death

11 July 2024

  • person's hands wearing gloves holds instruments on green object

    Elon Musk says Neuralink will test brain implant on second patient in ‘next week or so’

  • The output from a DNA sequencer, which looks like lots of various coloured blocks in rows

    Scientists uncover genetic disorder that may affect thousands around world

  • Prof Lord Darzi in 2014

    ‘A proper diagnosis’: Prof Lord Darzi, keyhole pioneer asked to unpick NHS

  • people hold signs in support of and against abortion

    Arkansas rejects initiative seeking to ease abortion ban despite over 100,000 supporters

  • Endometriosis needs to be treated by NHS as chronic condition, experts say

  • The experts
    The experts: oncologists on the simple, doable, everyday things they do to try to prevent cancer

  • Wes Streeting to ‘write prescription’ for NHS after independent investigation

10 July 2024

  • general view of medical equipment on a NHS hospital ward in London including monitors and medication in trays; an anonymous, blurred image of a patient in a bed by a blue curtain can be seen in the background

    NHS patients raising safety concerns too often ‘fobbed off’, says commissioner

    Dr Henrietta Hughes said focus on budgets had led to substandard care and dismissal of legitimate fears
  • A pregnant woman and a midwife, seen from the shoulders down, stand facing each other

    From contaminated blood to birth trauma, how female NHS patients’ concerns are ignored

    England’s patient safety commissioner says NHS patients raising concerns are dismissed as ‘difficult women’

    • Other lives
      Patricia Dale obituary

    • Rachel Reeves says the UK’s public finances are in a dire state – but here’s why I’m cautiously optimistic

      Larry Elliott

    • Tell us: have you had to wait for healthcare in the UK?

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