Stories
- Article
Rethinking the placebo effect
The placebo effect has long been harnessed for both legitimate and fraudulent use, but we’re only just discovering how and why our bodies respond positively to dummy drugs, as Anjuli Sharma reveals.
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Cowpox, Covid-19 and Jenner’s vaccination legacy
The well-known story of vaccination pioneer Edward Jenner has at its heart his drive to make vaccines free of charge and available to all. Now his principles extend to the global campaign for a people’s patent-free vaccine for Covid-19.
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Are people born violent?
Laura Bui explores how the nature vs nurture debate applies to those who commit homicide.
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This is a MOOD
Adults might sometimes dismiss teenagers’ ‘moodiness’, but adolescence is a time of complex shifts in brain and body, which are intricately bound up with fluctuating feelings.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
Patient Involvement in Clinical Trials, British Medical Journal editorial
Hazel ThorntonDate: 2008Reference: PP/HTH/C/1/13/3Part of: Hazel Thornton: Archive- Books
Clinical trials : what they are and what they're not / Association of Medical Research Charities, UK Clinical Research Collaboration.
Date: [2007?]- Books
Expert Scientific Group on Phase One Clinical Trials : interim report.
Expert Scientific Group on Phase One Clinical Trials (Great Britain)Date: [2006]- Books
Expert Scientific Group on phase one clinical trials : final report.
Expert Scientific Group on Phase One Clinical Trials (Great Britain)Date: 2006- Books
Controlled clinical trials : a conference / organized by the Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences at Vienna, Austria, 23-27 March, 1959, with the assistance of the Wellcome Trust and the Oesterreichisches Bundesministerium fuer Soziale Verwaltung.
Date: 1959