Some of our readers may be interested in considering this advertisement for a lectureship at the University of Cambridge at the intersection of evolutionary biology with medicine. It is an Unestablished Lectureship in Evolution and Medicine based in the Department of...

Evmedreview is very pleased to feature a paper on evolutionary nephrology by Robert L. Chevalier. Robert joined the University of Virginia in 1978 where he established the now internationally recognized Division of Pediatric Nephrology. Since 2010 he has devoted...

David Kennedy and Andrew Read have kindly supplied the following teaser for their latest paper in Proceedings Of The Royal Society B. As they point out, this “armchair speculation” has elicited a gamut of reactions ranging from awe to scorn and so we are...

What factors should we blame most for the continuing pandemic of heart and artery disease throughout the Western world? The argument has endured more twists and turns than California Route 1. For years, the diet cholesterol hypothesis has held sway, with added blame...

Further to our feature, a few weeks ago, on the state of health of the amyloid hypothesis – the dominant hypothesis to explain Alzheimer’s disease – comes news of yet another abandoned trial. This time the company is Merck and the drug under test is...