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  • A person being checked for skin cancer

    Half of advanced melanoma patients live for 10 years with double drug treatment

  • An illustration of two hands, one holding an ozempic applicator, the other a pregnancy test

    ‘Ozempic changed my life’: do diabetes jabs boost the chances of conception?

    As surprise pregnancies multiply, some scientists are investigating whether weight loss drugs can improve fertility in women with polycystic ovary syndrome
  • Extreme closeup of an angry man's face

    We’re living in the age of rage. I’m a psychoanalyst – here’s what we need to do to calm down

    Anger has come to define the public mood – felt in the posts of social media warriors and harnessed by populist agitators such as Trump and Farage
  • A pensioner struggles to keep warm at home.

    Charities demand to meet UK ministers as 1.6m disabled OAPs set to lose winter fuel payments

  • Surgical staff in wearing dark blue scrubs stand looking at scans on a screen in a hospital corridor

    NHS cannot embrace AI until its basic IT systems are up to scratch

  • Kristoffer White

    Father who is convicted rapist stripped of parental responsibility for daughter

  • Mike Jeffries, seen in profile, getting into a car on the Champs-Elysees in Paris in 2012

    ‘I constantly was saying no’: ex-Abercrombie & Fitch boss accused of abuse at global sex events

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Interviews & opinion
  • Eco Dewi Beach Cleaners pictured at Newgale beach in North Pembrokeshire.<br>From left to right: Jeremy Wadia (Director of the community interest company) and Katy Fox (Director of the community interest company), stand at the northern end of Newgale Beach in North Pembrokeshire, holding refuse bags, litter pickers, and collected beach debris and rubbish.

    Make it beautiful: seven local heroes improving communities

  • Staff working in a hospital unit

    Noble visions have been proposed for the NHS before. Will this time be different?

    The Secret Consultant
  • Zoe Williams

    Teenagers will always get drunk – so why don’t we just serve them in pubs?

    Zoe Williams
  • Rob McKeon outside Stafford Prison.

    ‘People do awful things’: the Parole Board’s Rob McKeon on life among murderers, rapists and career criminals

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In mind: focus on mental health
  • Peyo the horse licks the hands of Roger, a patient at the palliative care centre at Calais Hospital.

    ‘Doctor Peyo’: the horse comforting cancer patients in Calais – in pictures

  • illustration

    An illness in the shadows: life with borderline personality disorder

    BPD is one of the mental illnesses we still know least about, but now there is hope of a treatment
  • Yoni Yehuda, an Israeli psychotherapist, with Jack Daniels.

    Cats, camels and a Jesus lizard: the rise of animal-assisted therapy

    Once considered eccentric, using animals in psychotherapy is becoming popular as research reveals benefits
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My working week
  • A woman waits in the shadows

    My working week: ‘I wonder who buys sex from the vulnerable women I try to help’

  • ‘Minor changes make a big difference for disabled people.’

    My working week: 'Julie is disabled and the only one in her team made redundant'

  • GPs have had to adapt patient care during the pandemic.

    My working week: 'A patient arrives at my GP surgery with Covid symptoms'

  • ‘Faith feels lost after the removal of her children. So much of what she knows about herself is as a mother.’ Picture posed by model.

    My working week: 'Fiona's son was taken into care a year ago. Today is his birthday'

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Health
  • NHS app being used for self-isolation during Covid lockdown

    Opinion
    The Observer view on the NHS: If it is to ‘reform or die’, let’s start with the way it handles our data

  • Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey in Brighton at the start of the party's autumn conference.

    Ed Davey
    ‘NHS can’t wait any longer’: Ed Davey tells Labour not to delay investment

    Lib Dem leader says government should use new taxes on banks and wealthy to put nearly £5bn a year into health service
  • Prostate cancer cells.

    Prostate cancer
    New screening trial could save thousands from prostate cancer

    The £42m Transform project aims to find the best way to catch the disease in men in its early stages

  • Children's health
    Kids using lotions have higher levels of hormone-disrupting toxins – study

  • Sepsis
    NHS failing to learn from fatal sepsis mistakes, watchdog warns

  • Lucy Letby
    Vilifying those with concerns over Letby’s trial helps no one

  • America's dirty divide
    Extreme heat due to climate crisis puts people at greater risk of kidney disease

Blood, sweat & tears
  • Patient receiving chemotherapy

    Watching my cancer patients go through treatment alone is heartbreaking

    Lucy Gossage
    Covid-19 has made this year tougher for those experiencing treatment and those of us who work in cancer care
  • Surgery

    I tried to take my life five years ago. Now I'm grateful to be alive

    Anonymous surgeon
  • Emergency service ambulance with blue lights flashing

    There's a patient I'll never forget. Their burns and screams still haunt me

    Anonymous
  • A protestor outside the Scottish parliament building

    My husband is in a care home. I visit him for 30 minutes each week in a car park

    Anonymous
  • Catherine Pointer University of Southampton general hospital

    I was diagnosed with cancer at 14. Now I work alongside a doctor who treated me

    Catherine Pointer
  • Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson

    I'm disabled but was told I won't receive critical care if I get Covid. It's terrifying

    Anonymous as told to Sarah Johnson
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Social care
  • Clemency Jacques and son Alex at her home in Brighton.

    DWP waives £1,300 penalty for unpaid carer threatened with fraud prosecution

  • Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting at UCLH

    UK politics: No more money for NHS without reform, says Starmer as he outlines vision for health service – as it happened

  • Keir Starmer with King's Fund logo in background

    Keir Starmer vows to face down ‘loud opposition’ to fix NHS

  • Silhouetted male pushing an unidentifiable person in a wheelchair along seafront as the sun sets

    More than a million unpaid UK carers living in poverty, research finds

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Central & local government
  • An aerial view of round fishing nets

    First large-scale UK onshore salmon project at risk over ‘factory farm’ claims

  • A rewilding project in Ilkeston by the Erewash council includes the overgrown Barling Drive play area.

    Appreciating the many benefits of growing wild

  • Simon Case

    No 10 keen to kickstart search for cabinet secretary’s successor

  • Four middle-aged people stand on a freshly mown grassy area with a mower beside them.

    The meadow mutiny: why a rewilding scheme sparked a residents’ revolt

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Voluntary sector
  • A migrant being put into the back of a white security van while being held by an immigration officer

    ‘Inhumane’ treatment of migrants rounded up in UK’s failed Rwanda plan revealed

  • Extinction Rebellion activists waving banners such as 'Adani killes' inside the museum in March

    Save the Children pulls out of Science Museum event over sponsor concerns

  • Amelia Gentleman

    Imagine your friend survives a catastrophic accident. What do you do? This is what I learned

    Amelia Gentleman
  • Housing fronts on to a canal

    Watchdog opens statutory inquiry into Eldonian village charity in Liverpool

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Housing
  • Head and shoulders photograph of Rachel Reeves gazing down to her right.

    The Observer view on the UK economy: Labour is holding back when it should be bold

    • A view of the ArcelorMittal Orbit tower from Sadlers Wells East construction site in 2022.

      London’s Olympics have given the city a legacy to be proud of

    • People look at properties displayed in the window of a real estate agent's office in London.

      Tell us: we want to hear from renters and landlords on Labour’s renters’ rights bill

    • A protestor holds a placard reading 'Homes not profit'

      Thursday briefing: How the long-awaited renters’ reform bill could transform housing as we know it

    • A construction worker on a roof.

      Low-carbon homes can save £1,341 in bills and should be compulsory, study shows

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