Why husbands are cardiac failures
Married women find it harder than men to make essential lifestyle changes following a heart attack - because their husbands refuse to help. While men are often supported by their wives as they adjust...
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Pharmacists like dose of their own medicine
Humanities students are far more likely than science students to believe that prescribed drugs can be harmful, new research suggests. While those studying history might think twice about reaching...
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Write way to health
Writing or talking about upsetting experiences can directly improve your health, says American psychologist James Pennebaker. Professor Pennebaker has found that people who put upsetting experiences...
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Research In Brief
Do-it-all female bosses Women bosses are more autocratic than their male counterparts, research for the Manchester Business School suggests. Early findings from an ongoing study of 5,700 companies by...
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Heartfelt inequality
ETHNIC minority people with heart problems have poorer access to treatment than other heart patients, according to research published this month. By comparing death rates and access to cardiac...
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Worms and learning
A study at Edinburgh University of how parasitic infection affects the learning ability of rats and mice could have big implications for children in developing countries suffering from parasitic worm...
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Stereotype addiction
Despite increased knowledge about drugs, police still stereotype users, says new research from Bradford University. Bruce Cohen has looked at police attitudes towards drug users and concludes that...
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Contest nurses scientist tycoons
Teams from 25 universities have entered a competition to develop the entrepreneurial spirit of young scientists. The competition is part of an initiative led by the Biotechnology and Biological...
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UCL unit to tackle big killers
University College London is creating a Pounds 10 million biomedical research centre to look into ways of treating and preventing heart attacks, strokes and cancer. Funding for the centre is being...
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Institutes' research pays
Government-funded research institutes provide equivalent, if not better, value for money than universities, according to the chief executive of the Natural Environment Research Council. John Krebs...
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Pesticide advice plea
DISTINGUISHED academics advising the Government on the licensing and use of pesticides may not be providing impartial advice, the House of Lords has been told. In a debate on organo-phosphates, the...
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Pill giants look to new patients
The emerging markets of China, India and Brazil will play a crucial role in setting the agenda for pharmaceutical firms worldwide, according to Richard Sykes, chairman and chief executive of Glaxo...
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Conflict looms over EU mobility
The Government is set to become embroiled in further tough debates over European mobility in education, training and research. At last week's council of education ministers in Luxembourg, a European...
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Dreaming spires face minaret eclipse
CRITICS of a multi-million pound building planned for the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies want it to find a new site - perhaps facing the controversial new business school next to Oxford station....
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Allegre to slim the mammoth
Claude Allegre, France's new education minister, plans to "slim down the mammoth" of state education by introducing administrative reforms which would decentralise management of the system. But he...