Malcolm Kerr Muir’s death after a short illness, on 10 November 2019 at the age of 72, aborted his vigorous post-retirement career, devoted to enhancement ophthalmic care in low-income countries. Malcolm was very modest: quiet about achievements and self-effacing story-telling. However, lack self-advertisement should not deny him recognition for considerable contribution ophthalmology. He gift...

Each year, millions of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) migrate up to 3000 km from their overwintering grounds in central Mexico to breed in eastern North America. Malcolm et al. (1993) articulated two non-mutually exclusive hypotheses to explain how Monarchs re-colonize North America each spring. The 'successive brood' hypothesis proposes that monarchs migrate from Mexico to the Gulf Coa...

Aotearoa Health, New Zealand. Laurence A Malcolm, MD, FRCPE, FFPHM, Professor Emeritus and Consultant. Lawrence A Malcolm is Professor Emeritus and former Professor of Community Health at the University of Otago. He has extensive New Zealand and international experience in health services development, especially in primary care. Reprints will not be available from the author. Correspondence: Pr...

For the first time a malaria vaccine is to be tested for possible inclusion in national immunization programmes. Malcolm Molyneux tells Fiona Fleck why governments may need to work hard to convince people of its benefits.

Recovery from alcoholism can occur through a process of psychological death and rebirth. Generating a new person within a body once occupied by another, transformational change (TC) stands as a life-defining experience demarcating before (old self) and after (new self). The TC experiences of 7 individuals (Handsome Lake, John Gough, Francis Murphy, Jerry McAuley, Bill Wilson, Marty Mann, and Ma...