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What to do if you have damp and mould in your home
Housing advice

What to do if you have damp and mould in your home

Government 'risks harm to health and environment' by not banning disposable vapes
Pollution

Government 'risks harm to health and environment' by not banning disposable vapes

'Neurodivergent tax' is a price autistic people like me have to pay
Copies of the Beano laid out
Pete Wharmby

'Neurodivergent tax' is a price autistic people like me have to pay

What the NHS bed shortage means for patients who are homeless and have nowhere to go
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NHS crisis

What the NHS bed shortage means for patients who are homeless and have nowhere to go

Doug Johnstone: How a stroke led to my first contact with aliens
Doug Johnstone's new science fiction book was inspired by the writer's stroke. Illustration: Rosie Barker
sci-fi

Doug Johnstone: How a stroke led to my first contact with aliens

'Periods are not an illness': Spain just became the first country in Europe to introduce menstrual leave
Global solutions

'Periods are not an illness': Spain just became the first country in Europe to introduce menstrual leave

No one should have to ask whether they can 'do without' medication. But that's where we are as a country.
Rachel Charlton-Dailey

No one should have to ask whether they can 'do without' medication. But that's where we are as a country.

Sophie from Romania: How a nervous little dog stole the internet's heart
Animal welfare

Sophie from Romania: How a nervous little dog stole the internet's heart

Don’t call me a snowflake! Why we should treat mental health the same as our physical wellbeing
No one calls Jill Scott a snowflake for looking after herself. Photo: Leila Coker/AP/Shutterstock
wellbeing

Don’t call me a snowflake! Why we should treat mental health the same as our physical wellbeing

A disabled woman has been left without a toilet or shower for months by her healthcare provider
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Disability

A disabled woman has been left without a toilet or shower for months by her healthcare provider

Menopause policies would keep women in work. Why won't the government listen?
Elizabeth Carr-Ellis

Menopause policies would keep women in work. Why won't the government listen?

Glasses to make you look good and feel good
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Glasses to make you look good and feel good

Working temperature: When is it too cold to work?
Cold weather

Working temperature: When is it too cold to work?

The Big Issue Changemakers of 2023: Health and wellbeing
Manny Singh Kang
Changemakers 2023

The Big Issue Changemakers of 2023: Health and wellbeing

Sherlock star Lara Pulver: 'Maternal is political. No doubt'
Lara Pulver
working mums

Sherlock star Lara Pulver: 'Maternal is political. No doubt'

The environmental campaigner on a mission to ban disposable vapes
Laura Young (left); Collection of Lost Mary square vapes (right)
Pollution

The environmental campaigner on a mission to ban disposable vapes

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Even funding the NHS properly won't solve all the problems caused by austerity
Jaimie Kaffash

Even funding the NHS properly won't solve all the problems caused by austerity

As more children wait for mental health treatment, we need to remember teachers are not social workers
Louisa Rose

As more children wait for mental health treatment, we need to remember teachers are not social workers

The NHS is 'past the point of no return' say junior doctors bearing the brunt of the NHS crisis
NHS crisis

The NHS is 'past the point of no return' say junior doctors bearing the brunt of the NHS crisis

'My elderly mother was in an ambulance for 18 hours. But A&E was worse': This is the desperate state of the NHS
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NHS crisis

'My elderly mother was in an ambulance for 18 hours. But A&E was worse': This is the desperate state of the NHS