Medicine

Long-term public and economic health depends on empowering universities, businesses and health systems to work together, says Michael Spence

Playwright can help us see beyond the limitations of the biomedical model, argues palliative care doctor

Healthcare education must re-evaluate the importance of learning academic values versus meeting competence measures, say four academics

Requirement for trainee doctors to undertake training in the bush has not been enough to keep them there after graduation

Universities need to take account of the pandemic’s effect on productivity – especially that of women, says Jessica Borger

Institutions in emerging economies are seeing greatest progress in health subjects and citations, based on THE rankings data

Charity helped Iraqi researcher to escape aftermath of Islamic State terror to fulfil his dream of studying for a PhD in safety

Holyrood ministers say pandemic restrictions mean students have been unable to gain sufficient clinical experience

mRNA pioneers, Oxford vaccine scientists and Bill Gates are potential contenders for science’s top prize

UCU says axing health and life science researchers with the least grant income and fewest citations is ‘catastrophic error of judgement’

Researchers should campaign with the public to build back better, say Stephen Bradley, Jessica Butler and Chris Chambers

Researcher uses role-play techniques to demonstrate both the technical and interpersonal challenges of decision-making during a pandemic

It makes no sense for universities to control all pre-specialism, hospital-based training, says Fistra Janrio Tandirerung

Tributes paid to a geneticist whose ‘trailblazing science’ was matched by her ‘fearlessness’ in calling out discrimination

Vast majority of final-year students fail to take test to qualify as physicians 

Institutions get creative and find ingenious ways to adapt equipment and technological tools to replicate the experience of in-person courses

Biomedical research charity to focus efforts on infectious diseases, mental health and global heating

Michael Houghton calls for prize committees to allow six or seven winners, rather than Nobel’s limit of three

British researcher Michael Houghton and US-born Harvey Alter and Charles Rice honoured for “seminal discoveries” connected to novel virus

Universities must accept a level of risk and implement measures to minimise the transmission of infections, says Andrew Lee 

Publications must always permit debate on the quality and relevance of research – plus the efficacy and costs of derived policy, says Robert Dingwall

University president says C$250 million donation is ‘a tremendous shot in the arm’ and shows that donors are still willing to give during the pandemic

Expert calls for equal treatment of aspiring doctors, whether they are educated abroad or at home

Students from low-income backgrounds must not suffer from the unavoidable shortage of places, says David Katz

Nationwide student boycott delayed exams crucial in keeping young doctors in the pipeline

A Pakistan-based institution saw a new generation of leaders emerge during Covid-19

Plans for face-to-face teaching reversed due to ‘third waves’ of infection

The Research Australia report has exposed the fault lines in health research funding, says Ross Coppel 

Italian researchers behind much-criticised 2012 study request its withdrawal and apologise for ‘distress’ and ‘discontent’ caused

Agreeing on standard translations for technical terms is a crucial tool in developing teaching and research

Black Lives Matter protests have reignited debate over the persistence of ‘neocolonial’ structures within discipline

Tributes paid to a campaigning academic who fought to reduce racial disparities in the treatment of cancer and cardiovascular disease

New institution has jumped into research on AI system to help treat Covid-19 cases

Collaboration between the UK and China – and beyond – is needed more than ever to fight a pandemic in a politicised world

Staff over 50 might well wish to stay out of front-line contact with students until a vaccine is found, say Andrew Oswald and Nattavudh Powdthavee

Responses to the coronavirus touch on the deepest issues of the kind of society we want and need, says distinguished research professor

Making findings open source may enable certain companies and countries to corner the vaccine market, warn Virginia Driver and Tom Woodhouse

Academics involved say they also have a responsibility to ensure technology is used ethically in real life, particularly amid Covid-19  

As the tools of complexity theory prove crucial in responding to the pandemic, they must be taught far more widely in universities, argues former oil executive turned researcher

Weekly broadcast from University of Toronto vice-president has captured the attention of thousands

Deborah Bowman discusses the need to challenge medical students’ assumptions about patients with ‘underlying health conditions’

Newly funded work to include investigations into how the city brought infections down to nearly zero

New paid roles motivated as much by securing future doctor pipeline as battling pandemic

Tributes paid to a researcher whose work proved a ‘game changer’ in our understanding of cellular fats

Institutional leaders say role of universities has ‘never been more important’ as THE Impact Rankings reveal those that are leading the way on health and well-being

Claire Horn applauds a study of artificial approaches to ‘family-making’ that does equal justice to both the science and social context

Chan will head new public health school at China's top-ranked university in the midst of coronavirus pandemic

City, University of London professor calls for the creation of a food security council to feed academic expertise to ministers

As their book about the deep links between education and well-being is published, Anne Case and Nobel laureate Angus Deaton tell John Morgan about their jaw-dropping discoveries of a sharp rise in ‘deaths of despair’ among white American people – and an unhealthy obsession with causality among journals

The search for a coronavirus vaccine is spurring worldwide collaboration, the speed and size of which has never been seen before, say experts

Tributes paid to ‘visionary researcher’ who won 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

Colleagues’ doubts about whether he deserved a prize make Aymen Idris wish people did not see his achievement as tokenism

Adam Kucharski, author of The Rules of Contagion, on books that piqued his interest in mathematics, and those that showed how maths could be applied to serve public health by modelling infectious diseases – and happiness

New university-provider alliance advocates for the bush to attract more funding and a bigger say

Professors on the mainland and overseas defying government guidelines as outbreak spreads

Sharing of information improves after Chinese president Xi Jinping warns officials against withholding data

Inability to begin reruns of experiments highlights the problem of weak methodologies of journal papers, say Center for Open Science director

Hong Kong experts, drawing on experiences from the 2003 Sars epidemic, emphasise transparency

Scientific excellence is not the only relevant criterion – either morally or legally, says Alex Conway 

Falling numbers of NHS-based scholars and lack of research time must be reversed, warns Academy of Medical Sciences