One of the few neurosurgeons in the country, Mukasa declined lucrative opportunities to work overseas, dedicating himself to training a new generation and going the ‘extra mile’ for patientsKennedy Owuor first fell over in his hotel room in Addis Ababa…
Harder borders are a legacy of Covid we should reject | Nesrine Malik
Rules driven more by politics than Covid are taking a heavy emotional toll on families around the worldMoira Hunt hasn’t seen her mother in over 18 months. Hunt and her husband, Shane, live in the UK but are from Australia, where Moira’s mother is abou…
NHS England delays could lead to thousands of deaths, says heart charity
Long waiting times for hospital care mean heart patients could miss ‘window of opportunity’, report findsThousands of people with heart problems could die over the next few years due to increasingly long delays in NHS care, ministers have been warned.T…
‘Great to be back’: tears in London as quarantine-free travel from France resumes
First Eurostar train arrives at St Pancras on Sunday morning since Covid restrictions were liftedCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageNot until the automatic doors of Eurostar arrivals opened could Sue Stevens be sure that her da…
UK health department plan for return to office working put on hold
Exclusive: DHSC scraps timetable requiring civil servants to be in offices for up to eight days a month from SeptemberCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSajid Javid’s health department has abandoned plans to end civil servants’…
Medicine review – Domhnall Gleeson despairs in absurdist institutional limbo
Traverse theatre, EdinburghThe Edinburgh festival’s theatre programme begins with Enda Walsh’s flamboyant and funny new play about a man receiving an inappropriate form of drama therapy in a psychiatric hospitalEver since One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nes…
‘If you talk, you live well’: the remote Sardinian village with eight centenarians
Books, clean air and socialising thought to have helped the latest five mark their 100th birthdays in Perdasdefogu this yearIf there’s one thing the remote mountain village of Perdasdefogu needs to ensure it always has a steady supply of, it’s birthday…
How the ‘art of the insane’ inspired the surrealists – and was twisted by the Nazis
The author of an acclaimed new book tells how Hitler used works by psychiatric patients in his culture warOn a winter’s day in 1898, a stocky young man with a handlebar moustache was hurrying along the banks of a canal in Hamburg, north Germany. Franz …
Britain’s Covid experts Neil Ferguson Sage are under attack, but they are just doing their jobs
Those who attack Neil Ferguson and Sage’s pandemic predictions only expose their ignorance about science• Coronavirus – latest updates• See all our coronavirus coverageIt feels like open season on Professor Neil Ferguson right now. Sections of the medi…
NHS waiting lists could top 15 million in four years without major rise in capacity
Overspend of at least £5bn likely, says Nuffield Trust – but cabinet is deeply split over size of future funding settlementThe waiting list for NHS care in England could rise to 15 million people in the next four years without a significant increase in…