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Cleaners, porters, nurses, technicians and others took part

Music festivals strip people of parks

Cyclone Mocha crashed ashore in Bangladesh

Medical abortions made up 87 percent

A shortage of some 165,000 care workers

Junior doctors plan four day strike

Strike to save the NHS

Fight is about more than pay

Mental illness is the main absence reason

London march demands end to privatisation

Understaffing, deadly waiting times and low pay

Diabetes drug is the new diet trend

A fight over pay

Heating or eating? For some, it's neither

Climate justice is public health

NHS is at its breaking point

Poliovirus discovered in sewage

The NHS is pushed to the limit

Extreme weather is already harming health

As COVID-19 continues to inflict terrible damage, it is the privatisation of social care, and the undermining of the NHS, that is the root of the crisis now facing healthcare

As the Ebola crisis continues to rage across West Africa, Tokunbo Oke recalls the history of colonialism and neoliberal policies, which has ravaged the continent and left many states unable to withstand the epidemic.

The World Health Organisation (who) warned in April of the “devastating” potential impacts of antibiotic resistance. Antibiotics are used to kill bacteria. Before they were used widely in the 1950s, minor infections could become serious or even fatal. They are also vital for surgery and for preventing people from getting ill when their ability to...

Healthcare under capitalism has always been a contest between the needs of workers and desires of capital, and now the National Health Service faces its biggest battle ever.

With deaths mounting in Mexico authorities warn of a swine flu pandemic. Mike Davis argues that governments, pharmaceutical companies and agribusiness create the conditions for these health crises