Inference and influence
Quantification and the Quest for Medical Certainty
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Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features and reviews in the newspaper. Job advertisements, appear on THESISon the Tuesday before publication. The service...
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Physics puts up a fight
A "fight for physics" has been launched by the Institute of Physics to stop 1996/97 budget cuts hitting the discipline, writes Kam Patel. Institute concern was heightened by an internal review of all...
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Currency jitters hit joint work in Europe
The director general of research councils, Sir John Cadogan, warned this week that the cost of British particle physicists' participation in the international particle-smashing research programme at...
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Antithesis
Starter for five Scourge of evasive politicians and anatomiser of the failings of the British establishment, the BBC's Jeremy Paxman might seem a natural hero for students. But not so. No fewer than...
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Accredit where it's due
Therapists are persuading universities to set up degree courses in complementary therapies. But critics are accusing them of trying to get recognition via the back door. Aisling Irwin reports. This...
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Doctors in self-help
Iain Percy-Robb and David Lloyd describe Glasgow medical school's pioneering curriculum. Undergraduates starting their medical studies at the University of Glasgow next October will follow a...
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A cure for teething problems
Dentist training has not kept pace with the improvement in people's teeth. Aubrey Sheiham argues for radical change. Dental caries have decreased dramatically in most industrialised countries in the...
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A dose of the same medicine
Alternative therapies must be subject to the same standards as orthodox medicine, argues Jack Howell. For nearly 140 years since the introduction of the Medical Act 1858, which introduced the...
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Nursing figures for the patient
Florence Nightingale was the first to research patient care. Margaret Alexander and Jenny Hunt look at her followers. "For we who nurse, our nursing is a thing which, unless in it we are making...
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Medical research and teaching
(Photograph) - Research funding for medical and dental schools follows a radically different pattern from that of higher education research funding in general. The pie charts, based on the latest...
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A healthy body of evidence
Increased pressure on resources has seen the development of health care that is based firmly on scientific proof. Olga Wojtas meets John Swales, the academic charged with carrying forward a...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHUMBRIA. Vince Ramprogus, former director of nursing research at Keele University, has been appointed assistant dean (nursing and midwifery) in the faculty of health, social work...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER. LLD: Mary Hogg, High Court judge and member of the university's court of governors; John MacGregor, former secretary of state for education and science and leader of the...
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Grants
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST. Charities. Dr A. Stitt, Pounds 113,000 from the British Diabetic Association (to finance Dr Stitt's work at the Picower Institute in New York for a year with Dr H....