The battle for better maternity care shows the limits of the Amazon warehouse approach to medicine
The issues around maternity care are a microcosm of the bigger battles in the NHS – centralisation, protocols and “efficiency savings” v making…
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Episode two of my sitcom “The Royal Lezard Hospital” – and things aren’t looking quite so funny
What kind of person, I wonder, steals a bottle of perfume from an incapacitated elderly lady?
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How can a memoir convey the damage done by eating disorders, without passing it on?
Nancy Tucker’s eating disorder memoir, The Time In Between, tackles this problem head-on.
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Why you shouldn’t sell breast milk
In many ways we have come full circle, returning to a time when women were seen not as human beings,…
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Shock news: contra to the headlines, people with depression have jobs
With 1 in 4 people in Britain suffering a mental illness in any given year, it’s obvious many of them…
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Mapping the psychedelic brain: how LSD is making a comeback
Can drugs help depression? Crowdfunding allows science researchers to bypass institutional reservations and study taboo subjects.
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From moral guidance to national security: vitamins have always been used to sell food
Often beyond the realms of common sense, vitamins have become the most effective sales tool in food marketing.
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Researchers have a gut feeling – could chronic pain be caused by bacteria?
This month, researchers are gathering in Cambridge to try and work out why we hurt. Michael Brooks weighs up one…
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