Sarah Boseley
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A ‘skinny jab’ is no quick fix for obesity – and no excuse to let junk food companies off the hook
Britain should be taxing unhealthy food and clamping down on marketing, says Sarah Boseley, the Guardian’s former health editor → Read More
Smoking is back in candy-coloured disguise
Tobacco companies are pouring money into e-cigarettes and making them attractive to teens, says Sarah Boseley, the Guardian’s former health editor → Read More
The HIV prevention drug that could save millions of people – if they can afford it
CAB-LA injections offer stigma-free protection for those at risk – particularly women in Africa. A deal with pharmaceutical companies is crucial → Read More
Let them eat junk food? Johnson seems to have forgotten how obesity put his life at risk
It’s immoral to delay curbs on dangerous meals and blame the cost of living crisis, says Sarah Boseley, former health editor of the Guardian → Read More
Bless you! Meet the flu hunters trying to stop the next pandemic in its tracks
Remember flu? Despite lockdowns holding it at bay, a small group of scientists is searching the globe for deadly new strains – and to work out what to put in next winter’s vaccines → Read More
Hope, horror and Covid-19: my 23 years as the Guardian’s health correspondent
I’ve travelled the world covering everything from HIV to MMR to Ebola… and then Covid came along. These are stories that changed me – and the world → Read More
The Oxford vaccine: the trials and tribulations of a world-saving jab
Amid bemusement from scientists at the deluge of often undeserved criticism, the Guardian pieces together the story behind the vaccine’s successes and failures → Read More
UK tobacco firms fail in bid to have Malawi child labour case struck out
BAT and Imperial Tobacco deny they are responsible for farming families’ exploitation → Read More
Do we have to learn to live with Covid-19? – podcast
The Guardian’s health editor, Sarah Boseley, weighs up the race between vaccines and variants and explains why the end of the pandemic does not mean the end of Covid-19 → Read More
New drug cuts deaths among patients with no Covid antibodies
Oxford University trial reports cocktail of manmade antibodies reduces fatalities by a fifth → Read More
Novavax Covid vaccine has efficacy of 90%, say manufacturers
UK has ordered 60m doses of vaccine that is also critical part of effort to vaccinate developing world → Read More
UK to give 100m Covid vaccine doses to poorer countries within a year
At least 1bn doses due from G7 but campaigners say package does not address structural problems → Read More
Access to GPs’ patient data key to new treatments, researchers say
Group of scientists contest privacy concerns that they say are hampering research into illnesses such as long Covid → Read More
Can we vaccinate the world against Covid by the end of 2022?
Achieving herd immunity is possible – and necessary – but requires quick action, say experts → Read More
FDA to announce its decision on new Alzheimer’s drug
Usefulness of aducanumab is disputed but US approval will trigger push to make it available globally → Read More
Covid: more than 200 leaders urge G7 to help vaccinate world’s poorest
Former PMs, presidents and ministers sign letter saying richest should pay two-thirds of $66bn needed → Read More
School leaders say pupils should be vaccinated as matter of priority
Call follows the approval of Pfizer jab for 12-to 15-year olds and Delta variant outbreaks in English schools → Read More
The pros and cons of giving Covid vaccines to UK children
Analysis: the Pfizer/BioNTech jab has been approved for 12-15 year-olds but the risk-benefit equation is more complex than it is for for adults → Read More
UK regulator approves Pfizer Covid vaccine for 12- to 15-year-olds
Decision that jab is safe and effective potentially paves way for vaccination campaign in schoolchildren → Read More
UK urged to give 20% of its Covid vaccines to other countries
Top scientist Jeremy Farrar calls on Boris Johnson to use G7 presidency to take global lead on dose sharing → Read More