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Jeremy Laurance

@jeremylaurance

Jeremy Laurance is a writer on health issues. He is former health editor of The Independent and the i and has covered the specialism for more than 20 years. He thinks the harm medicine does is under-appreciated, the harm it prevents over-rated, and that cycling works better than most drugs. He was named Specialist Journalist of the Year in the 2011 British Press Awards.

UK heatwave: How hot weather can be deadly

<p>Gillie had a laidback, unhurried air which disarmed his interviewees</p>

Oliver Gillie: First health editor of The Independent and campaigner

Wakefield lost the scientific argument in 2004 when the Lancet announced a partial retraction of his 1998 paper

Andrew Wakefield's discredited MMR vaccine theory just won't go away

A child is given two drops of a vaccine in Delhi

The long and expensive fight to eradicate polio