Immunology

In 1998 a medical furore broke out when The Lancet published an article by Andrew Wakefield questioning the benefits of the MMR...

Known to many as “the father of immunology”, Edward Jenner changed the path of world history on the 14^th of May...

These are those challenges, particularly in development and global health, for which we have identified proven solutions but have failed...

From Malthus to the Club of Rome, predictions about maximum population size have been too conservative. We now live with 6-7 billion...

Homo sapiens have been around for 250,000 years - surely long enough to have become fully evolved?
It was thought that the...

Daily news bulletins threaten devastation from climate change, with dire consequences for health. Just how inconvenient is the truth...

What processes govern whether health in populations gets better or worse on a time scale of a few decades? Have healthy populations...

Public health campaigns have dramatically reduced exposure to infection but the effects have not been uniformly beneficial; one...

Few human deaths are caused by inherited genetic defects, and yet all diseases have a genetic basis. How do we resolve that paradox, and...

Choice is a marker of freedom, but also a consequence of limited resources. Because choices about health follow from evaluation, we now...