A medicine graduate awarded a place at the University of Oxford has failed in her bid to overturn the UK government’s refusal to give visas to students it says will go on to claim asylum
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…