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Recent research has found concerning levels of toxic pesticides in some tampons, with one product containing 40 times the permitted level found in drinking water. As campaigners call for new legislation, Closer speaks to one woman who was hospitalised due to using tampons

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Ellie Bryan was 30 years old when her world fell apart. She’d just had her baby son, Theodore, but within a week she found herself evicted from the home she lived in with her daughter, Amelia, now sev

For Menopause Awareness Month,Angela Kennedy talks to three inspiring women on how experiences of this life stage can vary for those from ethnic and minority backgrounds in the UK. Plus,we get insightful advice from two top meno doctors.

Have you seen anything online that’s made you feel worried?” This is the question Paula*, a leading child psychologist who’d rather not be named, always asks when she first sees children. A few years

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