With more people dying each year and many spending their final days in institutions, researchers argue that wider access to palliative care could offer a more humane and cost-effective alternative, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
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Big, bigger, biggest
PETER FROST says despite what you may have heard, size really does matter
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
A call from the World Peace Council to the peace movements of the world
DR HANA SAADA asks why a war crime against innocent children on this scale does not dominate the world’s coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran
From the colonial oil plunder of 1909 to the current threat of a regional inferno: Western interference in Iran forms a chain of coups, puppets, and cynical geopolitics centered on oil, says MARC VANDEPITTE
NORMA AUSTIN HART reports from a conference on on the rights of women prisoners in the Scottish criminal justice system
HERE is an amazing fact, the biggest animal in the world, not just now but for all time isn’t any of those giant dinosaurs, it is the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculusis).
Bigger than any dinosaur, the blue whale can weigh up to about 180 tons (400,000lb) and measure 98 feet (30m) long.
Its tongue alone can weigh as much as an elephant and their hearts as much as a family car, yet they survive by eating a diet rich in tiny plankton. They are a good bit larger and heavier than the dinosaurs ever were.
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