MEPs vote to support stem cell research
Decision puts pressure on governments to fund biomedical studies to cure wide range of diseases.
Sharp practice
Medical research funding is all mixed up with NHS patient care costs, complain academics, who are calling for a more transparent and generous funding system for clinical research. Anna Fazackerley reports.
Colin Blakemore: Professor No?
Colin Blakemore plans to keep his hand in as a researcher (at weekends) while he learns the art of turning down funding proposals as the new head of the Medical Research Council, finds Anna Fazackerley.
Feel-good factor in treating MS with cannabis
Mixed results from three-year study of patients.
‘It was a bit like going back to my old self’
Lesley Friend, 57, has had MS for 20 years. She found out yesterday she had taken cannabis extract, but even on the trial was convinced it was not just the extra attention that was making her feel better.
The fat controller
Obesity expert Andrew Prentice talks to David Adam about malnutrition, food myths, and why the world is eating itself to death.