Medicine

Challenging Circumstances: we need international guidelines for human infection studies

Safeguarding the malaria endgame in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic

By Rima Shretta, Honorary…

Picking up a Nobel

Oxford’s most recent Nobel prize winner Professor Sir Peter J Ratcliffe caught up…

Who shot the Dodo?

Written by Scott Billings, Oxford University Museum of Natural History

A Very Trump of Doom

How the Simple Stethoscope Transformed Medical Diagnosis

200 years ago precisely, in 1816, a French physician called René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec was struggling to examine an obese young woman who was presenting with symptoms…

The world’s longest endurance event

The challenge

‘We started the first trial in 2002…