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Dr Helen Cowan studied human physiology to PhD level at the University of Oxford. She then qualified with distinction in Adult Nursing and has worked as a nurse for 20 years in cardiac surgery, neurosurgery, care homes, hospice care and clinical trials.
Writing for the Reader's Digest online (since 2015), she explores human diseases and their drug treatments; and also marvels at the human body. She is a columnist in the British Journal of Cardiac Nursing, summarising latest research and exploring in greater depth cardiac nursing of the past, present and future.
Other writing includes those for the British Medical Journal, the Daily Mail, the Nursing Times and the Spinal Injuries Association.
She blogs at https://www.helencowan.co.uk/.
