Medicine

Years of declining funding have pushed university physicians to do more clinical work, with half of professors spending less than five hours a week in the lab

University of Pennsylvania’s ‘tenacious’ laureates reflect on coping with demotion, dismissal and desk rejection to continue their mRNA research

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman’s research led to jabs that ‘saved millions of lives and prevented disease in many more’, says award panel

California prosecution of nurse with doctoral degree held out as sign of academia’s wider failure to treat profession seriously

Greening of health research depends on goodwill and unfunded, uncoordinated efforts of individual researchers, according to study commissioned by Wellcome Trust

‘Vanity project’ to meet domestic health workforce needs would be ‘more socially accountable’, proponent says

All 44 members of Critical Public Health board resign over Taylor & Francis’ article processing charges and alleged push for minimum paper counts

Shorter degrees and more apprenticeships among other plans to boost staff recruitment

Loss of organisation, blamed on funding ‘uncertainty’, described as ‘shocking news’

Union would end medical school’s 15-year search for a partner

AI-generated answers showed ‘new, non-obvious and clinically valid’ insights in tests usually taken by students after years of study

Total number of applications to study for a degree in UK down by 2.3 per cent at January deadline

Deans warn of ‘wasted opportunity’ as Westminster government rules restrict intakes to international students only

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting attacks cap on medical school places that has led to institutions catering solely to students from overseas 

Shadow health secretary backing a Policy Exchange blueprint for growing doctor numbers, including the creation of up to 15 new medical schools

James Miller takes helm at University of the West of Scotland after ‘unconventional’ career path

New wave of funding schemes aims to counter ‘parachute research’ and brain drain

Shadow chancellor promises to reinstate top rate of income tax to fund ‘biggest expansion of medical school places ever’

Shortage of doctors can’t be fixed by pushing back admissions decisions, says centre-left rival

About 17,800 applications paused as foundation scrambles to help almost 300 medical and dentistry students promised non-existent places

Addressing issues with trainees dropping out or moving abroad as important as increasing places, says new Medical School Council chair

Specialisation is revered and rewarded, leaving teaching institutions wondering – even with a promised federal infusion – how to encourage more generalists

Disgraced surgeon convicted of causing bodily harm in verdict that raises further questions for Swedish research

Private university recorded £17 million deficit in 2019 and a potential £119,000 fine for late filing of accounts, as Crewe campus left problems

Modern universities’ medical schools seen as key for access, NHS and levelling up neglected regions in England, with calls for expansion to go further

Oxford professor says dismissive attitudes to Covid case studies meant evidence that mask wearing saved lives was overlooked

Less than 5 per cent of medical students on indentureship deal have fulfilled obligations to work outside cities

Academic who has become a lightning rod for criticism over her pandemic advice reflects on two years in the eye of the Covid storm

Minority public medical school enrolment seen down by more than third in five years in US states that banned racial considerations in admissions

Cureus founder says name-and-shame policy could cause hardship but is justified by threat to patient safety from fraud

Study finds little ‘substantive’ change between 2002 and 2019 

After fighting off attempt to expel them, academics resign from learned academy over ‘untoward political focus’

Long-standing issues put into sharp focus as expert predicts half of students pursuing medicine abroad fail to become doctors

Researchers support drive for quality over quantity but warn of unintended consequences

Experts say expectation of long work hours and ‘old boys club’ culture among doctors still pose barriers

As the pandemic increases public scrutiny of science, the UK Parliament is holding another inquiry into the long-running issue of reproducibility. Five of its contributors give their views on how sloppy science can be eliminated and trust be more firmly rooted 

England deputy chief medical officer, on secondment since 2017 from the university, has been one of most high-profile faces of country’s pandemic response

‘Appropriate action’ taken after investigation into executive chair Fiona Watt, says UKRI

New scheme unveiled six years after its underperforming predecessor was scrapped

Serena Masino is intrigued by a wide-ranging exploration of how political and economic factors play a crucial role in many diseases 

‘Return to pre-pandemic levels’ and refusal to lift cap to accommodate deferring students will limit opportunities, Russell Group warns

Californian duo David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian win prize for discoveries on how heat and touch are experienced

Final two staff members facing axe allowed to leave on more generous terms following long-running industrial action and international boycott

Institute in Liverpool will involve universities, hospital and local authorities in ‘holistic’ research on pandemics

Outrage as medical student explains how she was ‘yellow carded’ by examiner for ‘unprofessional’ outfit

Highly selective institutions’ recruitment of English school-leavers up 31 per cent year-on-year, as medical students offered incentives to transfer

University-run hospital will be part of a larger push to legitimise local expertise

Government adjusts cap on medicine places to deal with demand

Kristian Helin, incoming head of the Institute of Cancer Research, reflects on lessons learned from pandemic

Sarah Gilbert and Catherine Green tell the inside story of how they fought back against conspiracy theories, bureaucracy and hostile press coverage

There is still much controversy about whether the virus that causes Covid-19 was released from a laboratory. David Sanders considers the nature of ‘gain-of-function’ research, what it can teach us – and the safeguards we need to put in place

Proliferation of preprints in Covid era has led non-profit publisher to post reviews from clinicians on online papers

Decades of leniency encouraged scores of final-year students to fake their overseas placements and go ‘sightseeing’

Entry ban compounded by lack of flexibility on degree time limits, publishing requirements and accreditation transfer

Universities’ nominal control of undergraduate medical training belies the fractured reality, says Jonathan Rees

The professor of the history of medicine and author of Broken Dreams on teenage angst, exploring medical pasts and getting to the heart of midlife crises

Public universities could be ‘hit beyond repair’ in fallout from pandemic catastrophe, experts warn

Australian budget wish list also includes more research funding and extended transition funding for the new fee and subsidy regime

Winners describe how gossip and gaudy colours, as well as a desire to relieve suffering, spurred their research

Universities should rethink their role as a ‘neutral but powerful force’ in times of crisis, summit hears