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Aphantasia: Why I cannot see my children in my mind

Not everyone can picture images in their mind’s eye and remember sounds or faces – but why?

Study links PMS with perinatal depression

Women with premenstrual disorders are much more likely to have birth-related depression, researchers say.

Could assisted dying be coming to Scotland?

MSPs will get the chance to make Scotland the first part of the UK to let people legally end their lives.

What is assisted dying and how could the law change?

A proposed law would let terminally ill people in England and Wales choose to end their life.

Woman saw 20 doctors before endometriosis diagnosis

Dearbhail Ormond was diagnosed with endometriosis after seeing 20 doctors across 18 years.

‘We crowdfunded to help pay our son’s care costs’

Like TV presenter Kate Garraway, other families are struggling with the cost of care.

Girl, 10, left inoperable after surgery axed seven times

The curvature of Eva Tennent’s spine is now so severe that mum Jill Lockhart fears she will not survive.

Public satisfaction with NHS at lowest ever level

Just 24% of Britons say they are satisfied, citing waiting times and lack of staff in a long-running survey.

Council spending on special needs transport doubles

The rising cost of getting children to school is a key driver of current pressure on council budgets.

The man in the iron lung: How Paul Alexander lived life to the full

He spent 72 years using an iron lung machine to breathe after surviving polio as a child.