Six continents. Seven regional editions. More than a thousand of institutions analyzed. One question left standing: which medical university is growing faster than any other in the world?
In 1982, an Australian pathologist swallowed a petri dish of bacteria to prove a point nobody in medicine wanted to hear. Barry Marshall was convinced that stomach ulcers weren’t caused by stress or spicy food, as decades of consensus insisted, but by a bacterium his colleague Robin Warren had spotted under a microscope in Perth.…
In December 1967, a surgeon at a hospital on the southern tip of Africa did something the entire world stopped to watch: he transplanted a human heart for the first time in history. Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed that surgery at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town and in doing so, placed African medical science at…