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Ambulance crews risk burnout with 1,000 posts vacant

Why two brains are better than one

Call to extend HPV vaccine to boys as cancer rates soar

Existing between the lines: my child's 'invisible disability'

NHS England's top paramedics gain right to prescribe medicines

Arnold Schwarzenegger undergoes heart surgery

Give up coffee? Fuggedaboutit, say New Yorkers after California ruling

Baobab fruit takes off as a ‘superfood’ with sharp rise in UK sales

‘I was a caricature of my worst traits’ – how brain cancer can affect the mind

It’s official! Coffee causes cancer (except when it doesn’t)

Taste test: does Nestlé's 'restructured sugar' chocolate bar live up to the hype?

Advice to revise 7 hours a day for GCSEs over Easter 'unbelievable'

Enduring pain: how a 1996 opioid policy change had long-lasting effects

Hackers steal data of 150m MyFitnessPal app users

California judge rules coffee must come with cancer warning

Theresa May refuses to back Boris's 'Brexit dividend' claim

Ways to step up the fight against global antimicrobial resistance | Letters

Man's £54,000 NHS cancer bill raises ethical questions that can't be ignored

Police use actors to test if Dunstable pubs sell alcohol to drunks

Alfie Evans ‘about to be murdered’, says father after court defeat

Watching Hospital is chilling. Just how bad can NHS underfunding get? | Frances Ryan

Health trusts say next year's A&E targets will be impossible to meet

Cot death could partly be down to genetic mutation, say researchers

UK man contracts world's first super-strength gonorrhoea

Parents of Alfie Evans lose European court life-support case

Discovery of MRSA-busting antibiotic gives hope against resistant superbugs

Time to end the disastrous experiment in outsourcing | Letters

Ireland sets May date for divisive referendum on abortion

PMQs: Corbyn challenges May over 'crisis' in mental health services - Politics live

Jeremy Corbyn accuses May of breaking mental health promise

PMQs verdict: Corbyn's measured approach upends May on mental health

Too many of us young trans people are crying out for help. Will you listen? | Owl

Danger: a mucky rubber ducky is a haven for bacteria, says study

Theresa May pledges to accelerate NHS long-term funding plan

Corporal punishment at school saw that pupils lived in fear | Letters

We’re all full-time mums – with full-time problems | Letters

The benefit of being 112 on Facebook | Brief letters

May says long-term plan to boost NHS funding to be announced later this year - Politics live

Campaigners call on UK retailers to stop stocking Antarctic krill products

Race still trumps class for black Americans | Darrick Hamilton and Jennifer Cohen

Afghan clerics in talks with Isis to break polio myths

For doctors with depression, A&E can be especially tough. I should know

Is Jeremy Hunt positioning himself to be next prime minister? | Katy Balls

Prince had ‘exceedingly high’ level of fentanyl in body when he died

What musical theatre can teach us about how we respond to cancer

NHS trust fined £2m for Connor Sparrowhawk and Teresa Colvin deaths

My son has Down’s syndrome – and he belongs in a mainstream school | Sally Phillips

May must consider tax rises to fund NHS and social care, say MPs

Scottish health system quicker to spot cancer, says George Alagiah

Anti Diet Riot Club: the body-positivity meetings taking on ‘diet culture’

​'Before, I couldn't walk 200m'​ – why surgery can be life-changing for super-obese children

Jeremy Hunt admits NHS spending boost would mean tax rise

Hunt to unveil plan for women to have same midwives through pregnancy

Hospital doctors will find new NHS order on checkups ‘impossible’

Want to lower the abortion rate? Support pro-choice policies

Eradicating poverty would dramatically reduce TB cases, study finds

Time for change: Ann Enright on Ireland's abortion referendum

Mass protests in Poland against tightening of abortion law

Pineapples set to topple avocados with Britons wanting more

Patient groups criticise Hunt for ditching NHS waiting time targets

Great sadness about Tory devastation | Letters

What are your experiences of eating disorder services in Northern Ireland?

More cash will force the NHS to address tougher questions than money | Richard Vize

Unsane: how film's portrayal of mental illness is (slowly) improving

Integrating health and social care is vital to deliver Jeremy Hunt's plan | Julia Scott

New MS drug could slow symptoms of 'untreatable' form of disease

Paraguayan rape victim, 14, dies giving birth

Gene editing: don’t bet the farm on this pig in a poke | Letters

Theresa May refuses to intervene over man's £54,000 NHS cancer bill

The hard truth about back pain: don’t rely on drugs, scans or quick fixes | Ann Robinson

UK solicitor cleared of forcing daughter to undergo FGM

It’ll kill you – so what is the eternal allure of the on-screen cigarette? | Ryan Gilbey

When to end a terminally ill child's life? It's an agonising decision

Home Office overturns refusal of visa for NHS doctor's daughter

Lower back pain being treated badly on a global scale, study says

Failings in mental healthcare are violating basic human rights | Rob Behrens

Jeremy Hunt says NHS pay rise is worth between 6-29% to staff - Politics live

NHS staff 6.5% pay rise deal backed by healthcare unions

Pope Francis to visit Ireland soon after abortion referendum

Bill to give medical staff right to refuse role in abortions condemned

Want to know why homelessness has risen? Tory cuts | Alan Fraser

I’m a doctor, not a counter-terrorism operative. Let me do my job | Adrian James

Abortion rates drop dramatically – but only in rich countries

Ministers drop demand that NHS staff give up day’s leave for pay rise