Vivienne Parry is a writer and broadcaster. She has a weekly column in The Times Body & Soul section and is their medical science correspondent. 

A scientist by training, Vivienne has presented Tomorrow’s World, reported for Panorama and been a columnist for the News of the World. Her voice is familiar to many Radio 4 listeners as the presenter of the popular series Inside the Ethics Committee and Am I Normal? and she also writes and presents many other programmes for radio including most recently a three part series on clinical trials, for BBC World Service and a debate on reproductive technologies for Radio 3. She also broadcasts regularly for Five Live and is a pundit on many TV programmes including Question Time, the Wright Stuff and Richard and Judy.

Vivienne contributes features to The Times as well as the Guardian, Mail on Sunday and many other newspapers. She is science editor of Good Housekeeping and writer-in-residence for the Foresight Obesities Project at the Office of Science and Innovation. Her most recent book, The Truth About Hormones was critically acclaimed and shortlisted for the 2006 Aventis Science Prize.