Letter of the week: The health challenge
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How germs shape history
Jonathan Kennedy’s Pathogenesis reveals how diseases have built and broken empires and economies.
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Skinny jeans, plastics, stress: what’s behind the decline in male fertility?
Why scientists are increasingly concerned about sperm.
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Brain surgery in a warzone
For Ukrainians, victory is inevitable – but in the country’s hospitals, it is clear that winning the war will come…
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Sick Britain: where have all the workers gone?
An unwell, understaffed country has emerged from the era of Covid-19.
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How Big Tech made us screen addicts
Gaia Bernstein’s Unwired argues that smart devices are engineered to keep our children hooked. Can we hold the industry to…
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Why the government’s court action against striking nurses is an act of vindictive idiocy
Also this week: a guitar from Sting, and a literary reminder of why being 16 was never sweet.
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Joanna Moncrieff: “I’m not convinced antidepressants have any use”
The controversial psychiatrist on taking on the pharmaceutical firms, and how Covid made it “OK to cancel scientists”.
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