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How 7,000 steps a day could help reduce your risk of cancer

Study shows how small changes make a big difference when it comes to physical activity and reducing cancer risk.

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Mrs Dalloway at 100: Virginia Woolf’s timeless novel is a work of pandemic fiction

A century on, Mrs Dalloway speaks in so many ways to our own moment of militarisation, neo-imperialism and political crisis.

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Bitter Honey by Lola Akinmade Åkerström explores how mothers carry their histories into their daughters’ lives

There’s an urgent question running through Bitter Honey. What does it mean to parent when your life has been violently derailed by structures beyond your control?

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Do people really want to know their risk of getting Alzheimer’s?

A US study shows that many research participants don’t want to know their risks of getting Alzheimer’s disease.

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Assisted dying bill: religious MPs were more likely to oppose law change in first round of voting

MPs will soon vote on Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill. Analysis of the second reading shows how religion, identity and party shaped support and opposition.

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M&S cyberattacks used a little-known but dangerous technique

Sim-swap fraud is becoming increasingly prevalent.

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Closing off social care jobs to migrant workers will only harm a sector that’s already in crisis

Plans to encourage more British workers into the sector have been described as under-funded and ‘years away from delivery’.

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Could the assisted dying bill fall at the next hurdle?

The bill passed its second reading by a large majority but things get far more complicated from here.

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Everyone isn’t ‘a little bit autistic’ – here’s why this notion is harmful

This casual phrase might seem harmless but it misunderstands what autism really is and can do real harm to autistic people.

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