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The idea that a traditional Chinese herbal treatment could be the answer to drug-resistant malaria was tough to swallow for many policymakers in global health. With…

Outspoken when highlighting injustice, Sir James Munby became skilled at inserting resonating rebukes that embarrassed the government into his judgments.As president of the high court’s family…

The former Labour MP and defence minister Sir Patrick Duffy has died aged 105 after a short illness, a family friend has said.He died on 2…

For many years Geoffrey Bindman was a keen participant in a Black, Asian and Jewish breakfast group that met in Chalk Farm, north-west London. Across a…

John Stanley, who has died aged 83, was one of the longest-serving postwar MPs, representing the Kent commuter belt constituency of Tonbridge and Malling for 41…

It is still shocking to recall that until the UK’s first Race Relations Act was passed in 1965, people could perfectly lawfully be refused accommodation or…

When Peter Hirsch produced the first images of defects or faults in crystalline structures using transmission electron microscopy at Cambridge University’s Rutherford Laboratory, he transformed our…

Ruben Amorim has revealed he received a “show of support” from Sir Jim Ratcliffe after Manchester United’s co-owner flew in for a meeting on Thursday.Amorim is…

Sir John Bell, a prominent scientist who brought business and government together during the Covid-19 vaccine rollout, has warned that other big pharmaceutical companies will stop…

Sir Kenneth Calman was a doctor, public servant and academic leader whose identity as a proud Scot underpinned his values of compassion, ethics and hard work.…