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Helen Jamison

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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.

British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg (L) and British Prime Minister David Cameron (R) meet hip operation patient Andrew Sarton after unveiling major changes to planned NHS (National Health Service) reforms at Guys Hospital in London, on June 14, 2011.
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NHS press officers have a bad reputation. Perhaps it's time they had

A view of a single room in the new Queen Elizabeth super hospital on June 16, 2010 in Birmingham, England.
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After my mother's death I realised modern medicine fails to prepare us

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