At Britain’s first and only summit meeting on research misconduct in 2000, Alexander McCall Smith, a professor of medical law and ethics, argued that research misconduct (the gentlemanly phrase for […]
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Edward Davies: Keep religion in the consulting room
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Richard Smith: Can the Grand Convergence replace the MDGs?
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Edward Davies: Your patient just got punched in the mouth, doctor
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Helen M Nwaba on transforming the grassroots response to Nigeria’s HIV/AIDS epidemic
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Leigh Daynes: How Doctors of the World is helping in the Philippines
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Wayne Koff: Will new approaches for AIDS vaccine design lead us into a new era for vaccinology?
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