Making a new weight-loss drug available on the NHS will break the system
There isn’t capacity to accommodate the millions that would seek it.
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The menopause industry is a murky area of women’s healthcare
There is little evidence to back up claims made about symptoms, treatment and care.
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The Ozempic craze and the limitations of liberal feminism
We cannot pretend the drug has released society from oppressive beauty standards.
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The BMA turns away from rejecting the Cass Report
The doctors’ union has voted to retain a neutral position on the issue.
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England’s maternity care shame
A new report into England's maternity services has found a system unfit for purpose.
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Wes Streeting: “I don’t want to be the fun police”
The Health Secretary on Labour’s killjoy image and why the NHS will “go bust” without reform.
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AI won’t solve all of medicine’s problems
Technology is invaluable to the future of healthcare – but we must also be realistic.
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How the fight against sleeping sickness was won
We are closer than ever before to consigning the “the colonial disease” to history.
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