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Prof Gina Rippon dismisses too easily the genuine concerns about overdiagnosis of conditions such as autism and the medicalisation of normal behaviour (Why the antagonism over…

When Alan and his partner got together, they were “both in failing marriages”. “If location tracking had been an option for our ex-spouses in those days,…

Across parts of the country this week, nursery workers will don plastic aprons and gloves. With more than 500 confirmed cases of a life-threatening virus in…

BBCRaquel Celina Rodriguez watches her step as she walks across the Vega de Tilopozo in Chile’s Atacama salt flats. It’s a wetland, known for its groundwater…

Soaring rates of diagnoses in various illnesses such as cancer and diabetes have stimulated a debate about whether medicine has an “overdiagnosis” problem. The claim is…

Parents and experts have voiced alarm over rising measles cases, with nurseries bringing in Covid-style isolation protocols to clamp down on outbreaks.There have been more than…

The risk of Russia- and China-backed attacks on undersea cables carrying international internet traffic is likely to rise amid a spate of incidents in the Baltic…

“Policing men’s football creates significantly more demand than any other event in terms of public order deployments nationally, meaning every week, officers are taken away from…

“The world according to Sue Mengers was divided into winners and losers, A-lists and B-lists,” Brian Kellow writes in his delightful 2015 biography Can I Go…

BBCThe airport wants to demolish the building previously used as Terminal 1Airlines have reacted angrily to Heathrow Airport’s plans to raise passenger charges as part of…