bmj;379/oct27_7/o2558/FAF1faLeslie H Blumgart (“Les”), one of the world leaders in hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) surgery, was a dominant figure in […]

bmj;379/oct27_8/o2555/FAF1faMinou Dokht Foadi was born in Tehran, Iran, to Hasan Foadi, a linguist and teacher, and Houvieh (née […]

bmj;379/oct27_9/o2566/FAF1faWilliam Fairbank Doe (“Bill”), an academic gastroenterologist, professor of medicine at Sydney University, dean of the University of […]

bmj;379/oct27_10/o2562/FAF1faDonald Stewart McLaren (“Don”) was one of a group of pioneers in the area of nutrition and its […]

UK only places 11th in terms of total R&D investment as a percentage of GDP

In this paper by McManus and colleagues (BMJ 2021;372:m4858, doi:10.1136/bmj.m4858, published 20 January 2021), the authors realised that […]

bmj;379/oct27_11/o2564/FAF1faMy father, Philip Owen Nicholas, was born in Gloucester. He was the younger of two children and attended […]

bmj;379/oct27_12/o2561/FAF1faHelen Lightbody Kirkwood (née Steven) was born in Bargeddie, Lanarkshire, and was the first person in her family […]

Systolic blood pressureA meta-analysis of a vast amount of data from randomised controlled trials and cohort studies reports […]

Study involves patients with advanced common cancers and solid tumours