James Le Fanu

Profile: Full name: James Le Fanu (Dr) Area of interest: Health and medicine Journals/Organisation: The Daily Telegraph Email: james.lefanu@btinternet.com | james.lefanu@telegraph.co.uk Personal website: http://www.jameslefanu.com Website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthadvice/jameslefanu Blog: Representation: http://unitedagents.co.uk/books/james-le-fanu Networks: http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/james-le-fanu/22/916/4a8

Biography: About: Medical doctor and writer Education: Cambridge University and the Royal London Hospital Career: From 1992 has written a weekly column for both the Sunday and Daily Telegraph, has also published research articles in the British Medical Journal, Lancet and Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Current position/role: Health columnist / medical journalist also writes/written for: The Times, The Spectator and GQ magazine Other roles/Main role: Other activities: General Practitioner Disclosures: Viewpoints/Insight: Broadcast media: Video: Controversy/Criticism: New Scientist magazine had to make an apology for defamatory remarks concerning 'Eat Your Heart Out - The Fallacy Of The Healthy Diet', 1987 Eye on DNA blog: Dr. James Le Fanu Rolls His Eyes At Genes by Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei, 11th June 2007 Awards/Honours: Scoops: Other:

Books & Debate: Eat your heart out: the fallacy of the healthy diet (1987) OCLC 16680962 Health wise: an intelligent guide for the over 60s (1991) OCLC 26362282 Chattering international (1993) OCLC 29670531 (Social Affairs Unit) A phantom carnage: the myth that low income kills (1993) OCLC 29468897 (Social Affairs Unit) Environmental alarums (1994) OCLC 31075760 (Social Affairs Unit) Preventionitis: the exaggerated claims of health promotion (1994) OCLC 30915972 (Social Affairs Unit) Doctor's diary (1996) OCLC 37268738 Home remedies for common ailments: a handbook of treatments for all the family (1997) OCLC 52782969 The family encyclopedia of baby, toddler & childcare (1998) OCLC 60212499 The Rise and Fall of Modern Medicine (1999) OCLC 223151979 How to get to live to 90 (2000) OCLC 226089616 They don't know what's wrong: does your illness baffle the doctors? (2001) OCLC 47939286 The family encyclopedia of medicine & health (2004) OCLC 224343578 (with Andrew Burnett & Sue Ronay) Latest work: Speaking/Appearances: Debate:

The Daily Telegraph: Column name: Doctor's diary Remit/Info: Health: "...writes on recent medical developments and puts forward readers' connundrums that are baffling health professionals." Section: Role: Commentator Pen-name: Email: james.lefanu@telegraph.co.uk Personal website: Website: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthadvice/jameslefanu Commissioning editor: Day published: Monday Regularity: Weekly Column format: Average length:

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