Our mental health crisis won’t be solved by pills alone
The number of people taking antidepressants has doubled since 2011, but the side effects of long-term use are broadly unknown.
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The government’s 11th-hour ban on puberty blockers
The emergency legislation will expire in September.
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The junior doctors’ strike is not a gift to Labour
A short-term campaigning win on the NHS is also a long-term headache.
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Whooping cough’s deadly epidemic cycle
When the baby stopped breathing and started turning purple, I saw the real effect of this persistent disease.
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Dan Poulter: “I voted for policies that I would not now vote for”
The doctor and Tory defector Dan Poulter on the state of the NHS and where his former party went wrong.
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What we must learn from the infected blood scandal
This failure and its cover-up reveals the harm done by the NHS’s “institutional defensiveness”.
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The curse of climate brain
Global warming is not only destroying our environment; it is altering the way we think and act – for the…
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The Prime Minister’s cynical attack on “sick-note culture” was a missed chance to investigate the rise in long-term illness.
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