Should the indications for therapies differ from one nation to the next? What are the reasons
behind controversial therapeutic variations? What roles do cultural history and authoritarian …

When passion edges into zeal and frustration becomes arrogance, scien-tists lose credibility
and risk depriving us of their considerable and unique understanding of the intricacies of …

In 1996, when the sacred cows of controlled clinical trials were regarded as unassailable, I
was Editor of CME. At that time I published an article by Dr Bernard Brom entitled'Controlled …

EDITORIAL the patients in the Khayelitsha township, a large, poor, segregated area of the
western cape of South Africa. As President of the South African Academy of Family …

To the Editor: It is common cause that the Naude/Stellenbosch University/University of Cape
Town meta-analysis [1] played a decisive role in the multimillion rand prosecution of Prof. T …

When Hippocrates, the 'Father of Medicine', was born on the Greek island of Kos in 460 BC,
it was conventional medical wisdom that searching for disease aetiology in patients was …

In the US, as in Britain, as in the whole of the industrial world, medical researchers work to
develop scientific evidence that can be applied systematically to clinical practice. 1 When …

Disproportionately few clinical trials are undertaken on the African continent, in part due to
lingering neocolonial attitudes in the Global North which keep research activity primarily in …

Note: The Basham Medal commemorates the name of Professor Arthur L. Basham, co-
founder of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine …

ACCORDING TO THE British Medical Journal, administering soapy enemas to women
during labour was a common medical practice up until the 1970s (BMJ Publishing 2014) …