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By Alan White - 15 April 8:34

The battle over outsourcing for Suffolk’s community health services in Sudbury is a warning for the rest of the country - the future of the NHS is going to be fragmented.

Nurses dancing at Danny Boyle's Olympics opening ceremony
By Nelson Jones - 21 February 13:30

Universal healthcare is the least citizens should expect. To make the NHS better for patients, politicians, press and public alike need to cultivate a healthly scepticism towards it, not give it unlimited adulation.

Children and nurses representing the NHS. Photograph: Getty Images.
By Sunder Katwala - 14 January 11:43

New polling by British Future shows that while attitudes to the NHS have fluctuated, commitment to its founding principles has remained remarkably consistent.

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By Martha Gill - 25 July 8:51

Martha Gill's Irrational Animals column.

By George Eaton - 22 March 13:13

It was a 2009 Labour announcement, not Osborne's Budget, that persuaded Glaxo to invest.

Sanofi's Christopher Viehbacher (C) and Jerome Contamine (L). Getty Images
By New Statesman - 16 March 10:15

The French drug-maker to expand its presence in the biosurgery field.

By Andrew McIntyre - 14 March 12:44

Only foreign airlines can now transport live laboratory animals into Britain.

By Andrew McIntyre - 22 February 12:54

GPs will be soon prescribing applications that allow patients to self-monitor their health.

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By Dr Mark Booth - 03 February 10:57

To tackle neglected tropical diseases we need a far more collaborative and flexible approach.

By Mark Stevenson - 12 January 12:36

The geeks are on the march with increasingly vocal and co-ordinated calls for an end to crystal heal

By Simon Reid-Henry - 24 November 17:07

What The Global Fund's decision to cancel next year's funding round means for victims of Aids, TB an

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