John Mann

FeatureTargeting breast cancer
Tamoxifen has been treating breast cancer for 40 years, but few would have predicted how much this drug would contribute to saving lives, writes John Mann

- Feature
No laughing matter
Had it not been for nitrous oxide's subversion as a recreational folly, its utility as an anaesthetic could have been uncovered much earlier, as John Mann discovers

- Feature
The birth of the pill
Fifty years after its birth, John Mann reports on the conception and evolution of the contraceptive pill
- News
Can we halt the flow of new designer drugs?
Could the dangers of 'legal high' mephedrone have been predicted? Of course they could, says John Mann
- Feature
Design for life
A new drug for treating prostate cancer, developed by rational design and currently making its way through clinical trials, could improve the prognosis, says John Mann