Jacqui Thornton

How do you choose what to call your company? Wobble Genomics’s chief executive, Richard Kuo, explains. How do you choose what to call your company? Wobble Genomics’s chief executive, Richard Kuo, explains.

In the shadow of the epidemic that claimed the lives of 83 children, families live with constant reminders of loss. Words by Jacqui Thornton. Photographs by Tom Maguire

GPs say the covid-19 pandemic will bring about lasting change in how they work, Jacqui Thornton reports At practice level, primary care has altered dramatically in the past few weeks, with staff—clinical and administrative—adapting to new ways of working. At some practices, entrance doors are locked shut and prescriptions given out from a window. Red tape, appraisals, and routine work has been relaxed, and home visits hugely reduced. At the end of phone and video consultations, many patients a

Provision of palliative care in Tajikistan is growing rapidly, after being non-existent just 15 years ago, despite political sensitivities over opioids for medical use. Jacqui Thornton reports.

In the arid south of Zimbabwe, farmers have long experienced the adverse effects of climate change as they witness their crops fail each season and face a desperate need to find alternatives. Add to this a setting where HIV rates are among the

It was a frightening time for a young woman; during the night the pregnant woman in the bed next to her in the maternity ward died from complications.

Dominic Ongwen, a commander in the Lord’s Resistance Army, is on trial at the The Hague on war crimes charges

A British GP who swapped Oxford for Australia tells Jacqui Thornton about her new life in the Outback.