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For many, suffering is preferable to boredom
From the Press Association, via Yahoo News: … in one study, 12 men and six women opted to administer a mild electric shock to themselves to break the spell of inactivity rather than spend time doing...
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Assisted Dying
From the BBC: Lord Falconer, whose private member’s bill would legalise the practice for some terminally ill patients, said a “limited” change was needed to the law to give people choice on their...
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Warning signs
From the BBC: Scientists say a part of the brain, smaller than a pea, triggers the instinctive feeling that something bad is about to happen. Writing in the journal PNAS, they suggest the habenula...
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Doctors’ Assistants
From the BBC: The NHS is to rapidly expand the number of people in “doctor’s assistant” roles. Physician associates are usually science graduates who have two years of intense training. However, some...
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Electronically-Assisted Telepathy?
From Sky News: In a world first, a team of researchers has achieved brain-to-brain transmission of information between humans. The team managed to send messages from India to France – a distance of...
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Bird Flu!
From the BBC: A case of bird flu has been confirmed at a duck breeding farm in East Yorkshire, officials have said. The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said the risk to...
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Ebola vaccine on the way?
From the BBC: Twenty volunteers were immunised in the United States. Scientists at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) described the results as “promising”. The research is published in the New...
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Smoking in cars with kids to be banned?
From the BBC: Smoking in cars with children will be banned in England, under new laws put forward by the government. The regulations laid before Parliament propose banning smoking in cars containing...
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Are NHS Targets meaningful or useful?
From the BBC: Targets have become synonymous with the NHS. From hospital operations to cancer care and fighting superbugs, successive governments have used them to keep a grip on performance. And now –...
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Fantastic Voyage
From the BBC: In a case of science fiction meeting reality, microscopic “machines” have journeyed inside a living animal for the first time. The tiny devices delivered a cargo of nano-particles into...
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