The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee's masterly 'biography of cancer' makes for a great story, as well as an important history of scientific progressWilliam Halsted, a pioneering New York surgeon with a cocaine habit gained from experimenting on himself to work out it...
Jo Brand charms Hay festival with anecdotes of her pre-comedy life | Sarah Boseley
The standup Jo Brand's tales of her former career as a psychiatric nurse had the Hay audience in stitches – and also displayed plenty of warmth towards her former patients
There was a moment in Jo Brand's former career as a psychiatric nurse when she found herself running up...
Sarah Boseley explains: What’s happened to the UK’s health?
The Guardian's health editor introduces our health factfile - and the full dataset behind it
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Health, as the work of Professor Sir Michael Marmot most recently eloquently demonstrated, is in no small part a function of where and to whom you...
