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Medicine

Future doctors study pre-clinical medicine and clinical medicine to maintain health, diagnose and treat disease.

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Rick Jones obituary

9 Sep 2014: Other lives: Medical data scientist who helped establish the Yorkshire Centre for Health Informatics at the University of Leeds
Gilly Arthur obituary

3 Sep 2014: Other lives: Doctor dedicated to her work on voluntary counselling and testing for HIV/Aids in Kenya
When will they find a cancer cure, doc?

1 Sep 2014: Ranjana Srivastava: Patients with advanced cancer die, thinking remorsefully that if they had only held out, a cure for cancer may have appeared. In the face of current evidence, we owe them better
The man who grew eyes

26 Aug 2014: Growing nerve tissue and organs is a sci-fi dream. I met the pioneering researcher who grew eyes and brain cells
Sam Galbraith obituary

19 Aug 2014:
Surgeon turned Labour minister who worked to support the NHS
Peter Williams obituary

15 Aug 2014: Director who oversaw the Wellcome Trust's growth and success
QS world university rankings 2014: medicine

12 Aug 2014: The top 100 universities in the world for medicine, as ranked by higher education data specialists QS
I was told to approve a lethal injection, but it violates my basic medical ethics

6 Aug 2014: Marc Stern: We risk botched executions so long as they are conducted in a scientific vacuum and medical professionals operate devoid of any moral compass
How can closing stroke units improve survival rates?

6 Aug 2014: Richard P Grant: According to a paper published in the BMJ, the future just got a little brighter for victims of stroke – and London is leading the way
Influenza: How the Great War helped create the greatest pandemic ever known

30 Jul 2014:
GrrlScientist: The Great War helped create the influenza pandemic of 1918, which eventually brought an early end to the Great War
Women, antibiotics and the Longitude Prize

30 Jul 2014: Times have changed since the first Longitude Prize and women now form an important part of the scientific workforce. Can the resultant diversity help to find creative solutions to this challenge prize?
Risk of infecting surgery patients with CJD not taken seriously, say MPs

24 Jul 2014:
Ministers accused of complacency over hospital safeguards to prevent contamination of instruments with human form of BSE
Back to the future with antibiotic resistance

21 Jul 2014: Chris Del Mar for Inside Story: The evidence is clear and the pressure to act is growing. Without a cutback in the use of antibiotics, healthcare faces major disruption
Five books to read before starting medical school

15 Jul 2014:
How can you prepare for a medical degree? Try reading some books that will open your mind
Number of graduates from UK institutions employed by subject

27 Jun 2014: 69% of EU and UK graduates who completed their first full-time degree in 2013 are employed either in the UK or abroad. Find out what they studied and what they went onto