Contraception blood-clot risk: ‘public need better access to advice’
Health experts in UK say risk remains low, as social media debates shift from AstraZeneca jab to hormonal contraceptives
Screen Covid patients and NHS staff for post-traumatic stress, expert urges
Head of Royal College of Psychiatrists warns that the emotional toll from the pandemic could last for years
Many Different Kinds of Love by Michael Rosen review – life after Covid
The much loved writer gives a memorable account of the disease from a patient’s point of view, in poems, notes and emails – and conveys how it feels to come back from the brink
‘The ketamine blew my mind’: can psychedelics cure addiction and depression?
This week sees the opening of the first UK high-street clinic offering psychedelic-assisted therapy. Could popping psilocybin be the future of mental healthcare?
‘I’ve been called Satan’: Dr Rachel Clarke on facing abuse in the Covid crisis
As well as fighting to keep Covid patients alive, NHS staff are now battling a surge in abuse and denial in the second wave. Dr Rachel Clarke on how she is coping – and what gives her hope
Rachel Clarke: ‘NHS staff are burning with frustration and grief at this second wave’
The palliative care doctor and author on a year of Covid in UK hospitals and her hopes for the vaccine
Tom Templeton: ‘I suspect doctors have realised how therapeutic it can be to write books’
The former Observer writer and now GP talks about his new book, 34 Patients, and the challenges he has faced during the pandemic
UK tourists who need routine treatment to be covered in EU for 12 months
British government says people entitled to NHS care who need treatment such as dialysis can apply
Covid: NHS hospital trusts told to rethink pregnant women partner ban
Fresh guidance issued after growing outrage about women being forced to go through labour alone
The natural birth cultists care little about leaving women in agony
The horrors found by the Ockenden report are not alas confined to one maternity unit