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Scientists a step closer to mimicking way human body creates sperm

Glass half empty: the hangover from hell that made me tackle my drinking

The NHS turns 70 this year, and it’s Britain’s greatest medical innovation | Bruce Keogh

NHS shake-up is not a Trojan horse for privatisation, says top doctor

'Desperate times' for overcrowded hospitals, senior doctor warns

Hunt plans helpline for children of alcoholics after Labour MP's story

Giving up alcohol for a year salvaged my mental health | Ned Lamb

Gappy new year: our perception of the passage of time | Daniel Glaser

The appliance of science: hope and fear in tomorrow’s world | Jim Al-Khalili

Pity the drunk tank users – they do deserve help | Barbara Ellen

For reproductive rights campaigners 2017 felt like the calm before the storm

HIV/Aids adviser says panel's sudden firing by Trump 'feels like retribution'

Richard Branson's Virgin healthcare firm scoops £1bn of NHS contracts

Housing and mental health needs a rethink | Letters

To be happier, women should try giving up on being good

Britain’s need for ‘drunk tanks’ shows how broken our society is | Simon Jenkins

‘We believe you harmed your child’: the war over shaken baby convictions – podcast

Calls to NHS hotline peaked in week before Christmas

Bacon without the guilt? Nitrite-free rashers to hit British supermarkets

The abortion activist touring Ireland to win over hearts and minds

We're not the National Hangover Service, NHS boss warns revellers

Drugs are a health and social issue. Why do we make it a law enforcement battle? | Alex Wodak

My vagina was badly injured after giving birth. Why was getting help so hard? | Christen Clifford

Forget Juicero, here are the tech gadgets we can actually get excited about in 2018

NHS hospitals made £174m from car park charges this year

Online STI kits double testing uptake in young people, study suggests

Boots criticised over failure to cut price of morning-after pill

Our brutalising and degrading prisons | Letters

Researchers to study school records for clues on suicide and self-harm

Victims of disgraced surgeon Ian Paterson 'may have been missed'

The best of the Long Read in 2017

The giant rats that love avocado – and can diagnose deadly TB | Kate Lyons

Call for Syrian refugees' interpreters to get psychological support

This year I bought less and spent more time outdoors, away from the smells of Christmas cheer | Ben O'Mara

Turkey's waning fertility threatens ErdoÄŸan's vision of strength

The year's top development stories: 2017 in review

Laughing parrots, backflipping robots and saviour viruses: science stories of 2017

What will we be eating next year?

Huge health gap revealed between UK’s rich and poor

Homelessness in England rises by 75% among vulnerable groups

The NHS staff who rallied to my son’s aid show there is hope, even in bleak times | Jonathan Freedland

Why medical students are practicing abortions on papayas

Hundreds gather for Stonehenge sunrise after winter solstice

Spirited away from the clutches of our immigration regime in Manus, Eaten Fish is finally free! | First Dog on the Moon

NHS cancels surgery for tens of thousands to avoid winter crisis

A Christmas marriage proposal brought joy to my children's ward

NHS figures show sharp rise in patients waiting for A&E care

NHS England plans to cut indigestion and dandruff prescriptions

Woman gives birth to baby who spent 24 years as a frozen embryo

Breakthrough for genetic hearing loss as gene editing prevents deafness in mice

This is the first Christmas without my mother. But I'll always know where to find her | Gemma Carey

'Improv saved my life': the comedy classes helping people with anxiety

Amazon removes circumcision training kits from sale

The treatment of prisoners with mental health problems is a national shame | Eric Allison

‘Drugs are too expensive for the NHS – and people are paying with their lives’ | Robert Hart

Ralf Little video accuses Jeremy Hunt of misleading public

Hunt practises his caring face as Tory MPs drop pretence over NHS | John Crace

GP Amanda Doyle: ‘The NHS revamp isn’t a big bang, it’s a gradual transition’

Jails are exempt from smoking ban, UK supreme court rules

In my role as chaplain, I have seen joy in hospital at Christmas as well as sadness

Cervical cancer deaths in over-50s predicted to rise sharply in England – study

Where does cancer come from? We must talk about preventable risk | Ranjana Srivastava

NHS hospitals unable to fill thousands of vacant posts, Labour says

Mindfulness boosts student mental health during exams, study finds

The final stages of dementia: 'Does he dream about the love that's still there?' | Mark Brandi

Surgery that made its mark on patients’ lives as well as livers | Letters

The price of driving down care home costs? Staff who quit after a few weeks

Drug that holds back return of ovarian cancer gets UK licence

Living with disfigurement: ‘I’m proud of my scars’

Alarm over sharp rise in ambulance patient deaths in England

Simone Veil remembered by Robert Badinter

Brain game: the cognitive loop when we hide presents | Daniel Glaser

The NHS desperately needs a new vision for the 21st century | Lord Darzi

‘There’s no life here’: a journey into Britain’s precarious future

Slashing queues, helping new mothers: NHS explores apps for care in a digital age

Social care postcode gap widens for older people

Poverty in America is a moral outrage. The soul of our nation is at stake | Rev William Barber and Rev Liz Theoharis

What I’m really thinking: the same-sex IVF couple

Facebook admits it poses mental health risk – but says using site more can help

We support Stephen Hawking’s legal action to save the NHS

Tablet tech can help pensioners like me to keep loneliness at bay

This may be a turning point in treating neurodegenerative diseases

The doctor who signed patients’ livers was silly, not criminal. The law is an ass | Henry Marsh

Loneliness heightened by social media, Jo Cox's sister says

Ministers' under the radar NHS reforms are fuelling public anxiety | Richard Vize

'The government's played us for fools': your best comments on the Guardian today

A moment that changed me: when overwhelming sadness drove me to seek counselling | Sachin Nakrani

Half of young people do not use condoms for sex with new partner – poll

Minimum alcohol price will raise cost by up to 90% in Scotland – study

Could drinking tea really be linked to a lower risk of glaucoma?

Major NHS trust turns away A&E patients 13 times in a week

Alarmed by advice on breast cancer checks | Letter

Concerns over low uptake of winter flu jab in England

I didn't train as a doctor to prop up a struggling NHS – so I quit

Size does matter: wine glasses are seven times larger than they used to be

Just what men need – a sex survey that kicks sand in our faces | Peter Ormerod

More US teens are vaping than smoking cigarettes, study finds

El Salvador court upholds 30-year jail sentence in stillbirth case

Leap forward towards gene therapy cure for haemophilia A