The legacy of penicillin’s first patient
Albert Alexander’s story should inspire us to renew humanity’s struggle against antimicrobial resistant infections.
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The NHS’s decline will have political consequences
People still value the service but they don’t think it’s well run.
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The family doctor knows best
A sweeping history of the NHS and one GP’s inside account of a long career on the front line.
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The sick society
How Big Pharma and the charity health sector are making us a nation of the worried well.
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The tragic case of Carla Foster shows why abortion should be decriminalised
Vulnerable women making decisions in harrowing circumstances should not end up in prison.
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Elise Loehnen: “Wellness as a concept needs to fracture”
The journalist and former chief content officer for Goop on learning not to be good.
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I refuse to feel shame after eating – but it saddens me that so many women still do
I thought moralised comments about eating were a thing of the past, but then I went on a girls’ holiday.
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The ultra-processed food swindle
Engineered to trick our taste buds and appetites, artificially produced food is ruining our health and damaging our children. But…
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