カテゴリー: Medicine
After no reported cases of wild polio for 19 weeks, vaccination efforts boosted at last endemic spots in Pakistan and AfghanistanThe world is “tantalisingly close” to eradicating polio – with no confirmed cases of wild polio anywhere so far this year. …
South Asians today are between four and six times more likely to get type 2 diabetes than white people. While the role of diet and lifestyle has been explored, it’s only recently that the impact of the disproportionate famines under British colonial ru…
More women qualified for places than men for first time since universities admitted to deliberately failing female applicantsJapanese women have outperformed men in medical school entrance exams for the first time since universities admitted they had d…
Many Koreans born in the early and mid 20th century led extraordinary lives that were buffeted by colonialism and the cruelty of the cold war division of the Korean peninsula. But the life of Cecilia Kim, who has died aged 89, was more extraordinary th…