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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?

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Study links PMS with perinatal depression

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

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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.

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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.

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Woman saw 20 doctors before endometriosis diagnosis

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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