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Boost for Blackburn medical park - Lancashire Telegraph 26th October 2009
"A NEW ‘health hub’ could turn East Lancashire into a regional leader in the bio-medical sector, it is hoped.
Regeneration leaders have teamed up with the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) to move the development from Preston to the Medi Knowledge Park, in Shadsworth, Blackburn. "
Coroner to investigate cancer death cluster around historic nuclear lab - The Independent on Sunday 18th October 2009
"An inquest is to be opened into the deaths of two Manchester University academics who died of pancreatic cancer after working for years in the building where Ernest Rutherford, the father of nuclear"
Relatives criticise uni radiation probe - Manchester Evening News 14th October 2009
"RELATIVES of staff who occupied the former labs of a nuclear pioneer have criticised a report which ruled out a radiation scare.
A cluster of cancers cases alarmed staff at the Manchester University building where Ernest Rutherford carried out atomic tests.
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Uni cancer deaths not linked to radiation - Manchester Evening News 30th September 2009
"THE cancer deaths of six former University of Manchester employees was not due to radiation contamination, an independent report has concluded.
Professor David Coggon said he was 'pretty confident' there were only 'small' health risks to people who worked in a building at the university where Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist Ernest Rutherford carried out atomic experiments."
Students turn to 'smart drugs' to boost grades - The Guardian 1st October 2009
"Use of brain-enhancing drugs is on the rise, and a ban wouldn't work, expert warns"
Drug tests for exam students 'inevitable' - The Independent 1st October 2009
"The spectre of students queuing to provide urine samples before sitting exams is raised today by a scientist who says "academic doping" is likely to become as routine as in sport."
Smart drugs 'should be allowed’ - Daily Telegraph 30th September 2009
"Students should be allowed to take “smart drugs” to boost their performance in exams, according to an academic. "
Sports-style dope tests to weed out drug-cheat students - Daily Mail 1st October 2009
"Students who use brain boosting 'smart drugs' to get better exam grades could face sports-style urine tests to weed out the cheats, warns a top academic.
Among drugs being used are Ritalin, amphetamines and the wide-awake drug modafinil, claims Australian psychologist Vince Cakic."
'No atomic link' in cancer deaths - BBC Health News 30th September 2009
"The deaths of six people who worked in a University of Manchester building at the centre of a contamination probe were "coincidence", a report has found.
All six had worked in the Rutherford Building, where scientists carried out experiments on atomic structure at the beginning of the 20th Century. "
Don't be a sickly student! - The Guardian 8th September 2009
Late nights, poor diet, alcohol – starting university can be a recipe for ill-health
Universities may cancel freshers' week over swine flu - The Guardian 23rd July 2009
Officials draw up contingency plans to postpone activities and close parts of campus if pandemic peaks at start of term
Needle over acupuncture course - Manchester Evening News 21st January 2009
A UNIVERSITY has scrapped a course in acupuncture and aromatherapy branded `anti-science' by critics.
Salford University said the three-year degree in traditional Chinese medicine didn't fit with the `strategic direction' bosses want to adopt.
Former occupant of Rutherford's nuclear laboratory becomes latest to develop cancer - The Guardian 13th January 2009
Former occupant of Rutherford's nuclear laboratory becomes latest to develop cancer. Francis Beckett reports
Let students take drugs to boost brainpower, says leading academic - The Times 1st January 2009
Students should be allowed to take “smart drugs”, such as Ritalin, to help boost their academic performance, a leading academic has suggested.
John Harris, professor of bioethics and director of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester, said the government and medical profession should “seriously consider” making cognition-enhancing drugs available to students without prescription, or allowing them to be prescribed for non-therapeutic purposes, such as studying.
Students 'should be given smart drugs to get better exam results' - The Telegraph 1st January 2008
So-called 'smart drugs' should be given to students to help them get better exam results, a leading academic has claimed.
Ministers and doctors should consider making the drugs available without prescription and for non-medical use, said John Harris, director of the Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester.
Nursing research takes its place on world stage - The Guardian 19th December 2008
Nursing, for many years medicine's poor relation, has come of age in the 2008 research assessment exercise (RAE). Academics in the field can justifiably claim to be world-leading in terms of research.\n\nNursing and midwifery was among the subjects with the most highly rated research in the results published today.
The Ritalin express - BBC Health News 23rd October 2008
People are well used to seeing performance enhancing drugs in the world of sport, but now chemical enhancement is spreading to the world of academia as students go to extreme lengths to get the right grades.
EPO. Nandrolone. THG. Ephedrine. Anybody who follows sport will have heard of these performance enhancing drugs, usually accompanied by the word "cheat".
Contamination fears after four university cancer deaths - The Guardian 21st October 2008
Manchester University is launching an inquiry into the safety of one of its most famous buildings amid fears that radioactive contamination may have contributed to the deaths of four staff.\n\nThe investigation will focus on the Rutherford building, where Ernest Rutherford, one of the founding fathers of atomic physics, worked with radioactive materials at the beginning of the 20th century.
Expert in radiation probe - Manchester Evening News 30th September 2008
AN EXPERT is heading to Manchester University to investigate a radiation scare linked to five deaths.
Prof David Coggon from the Medical Research Council will carry out an independent review of possible health risks at the university's Rutherford Building.
The deadly legacy of room 2.62 – or just a cancerous coincidence? - The Independent 24th September 2008
He was the man who launched the world into the nuclear age, winning a Nobel prize and laying the foundations for modern nuclear physics.
But now it appears that radiation left over from 100-year-old experiments by Ernest Rutherford, the first man to split the atom, could be partly responsible for the deaths of up to four Manchester University staff.
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