Helen Jamison
Helen Jamison is Deputy Director of the Science Media Centre, working on the front line between science and the news since 2007. She has previously worked at Nature magazine, is a neuroscientist by training and has blogged for the Times.
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NHS press officers have a bad reputation. Perhaps it's time they had their own PR campaign
19 March 2013 04:08 PM
At a time when Britain's public services are more cash-strapped than ever, PR for the NHS might seem like an unjustifiable expense. It isn't, it's vital
After my mother's death I realised modern medicine fails to prepare us for the inevitable
12 November 2012 04:16 PM
The Liverpool Care Pathway has brought death back into the headlines, but instead of the open discussion we need, it's become another hysterical debate
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Bloody attack brings terror to capital’s streets
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Mothers' diets may harm IQs in two-thirds of babies
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Gay couple beaten in park urge MPs to moderate language on gay marriage
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After woman sells virginity for $780,000, here are the results of our prostitution survey
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Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
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Edward VIII’s phone calls - and how MI5 bugged them
Sent down at the Old Bailey
Hollywood's random acts of red-carpet kindness
British football scores an own goal
James Lawton
Dylan Hartley talks tough
Watch out Watford: Here comes the secretive Bilderberg Group
'The ultimate all-in-one home entertainment system'
Plenty of sleaze
The Freemasons’ Code
Not secure any more: G4S boss heads for exit at last
How to say ‘I’m a sellout’
Why clubs are keen to take a stand
In the end the fans decided Tony Pulis had made a pig's ear of the job at Stoke City
James Lawton: The James Hunt I knew is the subject of a new F1 movie
