Cheap drugs for addicts may wipe out problem
SUPPLYING drug addicts with cheap heroin and cocaine and then making prices repressively high could dramatically reduce thenumber of new users and smash the drug market, concludes research by...
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Feeling poorly is not always a bad thing
ILLNESS can be good for you, according to research by a PhDstudent. Samantha Sodergren, of the University of Plymouth's health-related quality of life research centre, found sickness could have a...
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Exeter wields the magic wart wand
WART charming is to be put under the microscope by scientists at Exeter University's department of complementary medicine. Video cameras will record instances in which healers attempt to cure warts...
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Sunlight exposure worsens crippling disease
RESEARCHERS at Leicester University have identified a link between sunlight and the crippling disease lupus. Lupus, which affects more than 20,000 people in the UK, occurs when the body's immune...
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Pelvic exercises reduce incontinence after birth
Incontinence after childbirth could soon become a thing of the past as doctors from the University of Plymouth's Postgraduate Medical School investigate whether pelvic floor exercises could save the...
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Vitamin C could fight cancer
THE chemical make-up of plans could hold the key to understanding cancer and heart disease, new research suggests. Emma Lloyd, a chemistry lecturer at Leicester University, has established how...
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Berlinguer's soft revolution
Luigi Berlinguer has his hands full. As Italy's first minister for both schools and higher education, including scientific research, he is spearheading a radical renewal of the country's entire...
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Pristina pressure still on
ETHNIC Albanian students in Kosovo are keeping up the pressure on the Serbian government to allow their return to the University of Pristina. United Nations special emissary on human rights,...
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Funding gap threat to medical schools
VARIATIONS in research income between different medical schools are greater than ever, with some schools receiving ten times more money than others, it was claimed this week. Sir Keith Peters, regius...
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Russian admissions boom rumbles on
RECORD numbers of students have been admitted to Russian universities for the second year running, reversing a decade of decline. Admissions to state and private universities are expected to exceed...
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Service plan to solve financial woes
NEEDY South African students saddled with large study loans should be able to pay them off partly through community service work that also teaches skills, earns academic credit, benefits universities...
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Playing the trading game
NEW YORK financial markets have been open for just ten minutes, but already heads are bent over monitors where colour-coded financial information from Reuters and Dow Jones is continuously updated at...
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Re-animation of our universities
Almost twice as many people in Britain are now employed in the arts and cultural industries as in the motor industry. Similarly dramatic figures, though widely varying, are put on the amount these...
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Penny wise, pound foolish
If academics were twitching about the way in which research has been treated in the Dearing aftermath - relegated to the sidelines while teaching and learning receive all the attention - they will...
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Science is the route to take to high office
For more than a century, the most direct career path to high office in Britain has been to study classics at Oxbridge. Specifically, the Oxford "Greats" degree (Greek, Latin, ancient history and...