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Sarah Boseley

Sarah Boseley is the former health editor of the Guardian. In a 37-year career at the Guardian she won a number of awards for her work on HIV/Aids in Africa, including the One World Media award (twice) and the European section of the Lorenzo Natali prize, awarded by the European commission. She is also the author of The Shape We're In: How Junk Food and Diets Are Shortening Our Lives, published by Guardian Faber

June 2024

  • Michael Moseley at his home in Buckinghamshire, 2013.

    Dr Michael Mosley obituary

  • yellow and red capsules

    A guide to ADHD and autism
    ADHD: does medication work?

May 2024

  • A group of women, men and one child wearing red tops and holding signs - including one bearing the words 'I didn't get to meet my Grandma due to infect blood' - stand outside the Houses of Parliament.

    They made fatal decisions and shredded evidence. Those behind the contaminated blood scandal must face justice

    Sarah Boseley
    Ordinary people were wronged, their lives ruined. After today’s devastating report, a reckoning is long overdue, says former Guardian health editor Sarah Boseley

April 2024

  • A doctor holds a patient's hand at a desk

    Fair Access
    Cost of developing new drugs may be far lower than industry claims, trial reveals

    Exclusive: MSF calls for transparency after its bill for a trial of TB treatment came to a fraction of the billions claimed by pharmaceutical companies

February 2024

  • Young woman exhaling while smoking an electronic cigarette

    Today in Focus
    The disposable vape ban

    Vapes are often used by smokers to help them quit cigarettes, but in recent years more British children have taken up the habit. So is a ban the right course of action? Sarah Boseley reports

November 2023

  • Vanessa Kerry seated, elbows on table, hands clasped in front of chin, behind her sun sets behind a large tree, in Lusaka, Zambia.

    Health and climate
    Like father, like daughter: why Vanessa Kerry is demanding action on climate and health

  • A girl collects water in a plastic bottle from a shallow river next to a donkey pulling a cart

    Health and climate
    ‘Paying in lives’: health of billions at risk from global heating, warns report

October 2023

  • Children sleep in an Internally Displaced Peoples camp in Liton, Central African Republic. Malaria thrives in war-torn regions.

    The new malaria vaccine will prevent many deaths – but it’s by no means the end of the disease

    The new R21/Matrix-M vaccine will be far more easily available than the first vaccine – but the reality of life in Africa will blunt its impact

September 2023

  • Young cancer patients take part in a painting competition in a hospital in Chandigarh, northern India.

    A common condition
    ‘No child should die’: the US hospital leading a global fight against childhood cancer

    St Jude in Memphis, Tennessee, is taking its fight against youth illness around the world – thanks to its own resources and celebrity backers

June 2023

  • A woman with her face painted with lungs and the words 'stop TB'.

    Fair Access
    ‘Gamechanging’ TB vaccine within reach after $500m pledge to run final trials

  • People sit at an outdoors bar in Bridgetown, Barbados, with a prominent Coca-Cola advert.

    A common condition
    Barbados fights Big Sugar for the survival of its people

April 2023

  • Wegovy injector pens in a box

    A ‘skinny jab’ is no quick fix for obesity – and no excuse to let junk food companies off the hook

    Sarah Boseley
    Britain should be taxing unhealthy food and clamping down on marketing, says Sarah Boseley, the Guardian’s former health editor

March 2023

  • Three electronic cigarettes on a yellow background.

    Science Weekly
    What should we do about the rise in children vaping?

    Madeleine Finlay speaks to former Guardian health editor Sarah Boseley about the rise in vaping among under-18s and what can be done to discourage more children from taking up the habit. She also hears from Prof Linda Bauld about the impact of vaping on young people

February 2023

  • Nurses on strike in London on 6 February.

    Health workers ‘shattered’, says Jeremy Farrar as more NHS strikes loom

  • Jeremy Farrar

    ‘There may still be surprises’: Jeremy Farrar warns of pandemic perils ahead

November 2022

  • Elf Bar disposable e-cigarette products in a shop display in the US.

    Smoking is back in candy-coloured disguise - and a whole new generation is addicted

    Sarah Boseley
    Tobacco companies are pouring money into e-cigarettes and making them attractive to teens, says Sarah Boseley, the Guardian’s former health editor

August 2022

  • Protesters take the stage during the opening ceremony of the AIDS 2022 conference in Montreal on Friday, July 29, 2022. (Paul Chiasson /The Canadian Press via AP)

    The HIV prevention drug that could save millions of people – if they can afford it

  • Doses of monkeypox vaccine ready to be injected at a Chicago clinic in the United States last week. Poorer countries are likely to be at the back of queue.

    Global monkeypox vaccine race sparks fears that poorer nations will lose out

May 2022

  • Cupcakes decorated with pink hearts

    Let them eat junk food? Johnson seems to have forgotten how obesity put his life at risk

    Sarah Boseley
    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

March 2022

  • Man with flu coughing and sneezing<br>GettyImages-148981627

    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
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