Posts Tagged ‘ Scary ’

Funding research in Africa

22 February, 2012

Should research in Africa be conducted by African researchers? If so, who’s going to fund it?

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Diabetes in the developing world going untreated, despite available drugs

16 February, 2012

Despite the image of diabetes as an affliction of fat Western people, eighty per cent of deaths from the disease are in low- and middle-income countries.

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Screening soldiers for propensity to PTSD

15 February, 2012
Screening soldiers for propensity to PTSD

Testing soldiers for future susceptibility to PTSD could allow extra training beforehand – but could also be used to screen recruits.

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Leveson tackles science reporting in newspapers

11 February, 2012

Kate Adams was surprised to discover that there’s more to Leveson than phone hacking

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Dino eye-sores – bigger wasn’t always better

9 February, 2012

A rule thought central to vertebrate evolution has been falsified for a selection of dinosaurs

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