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Health: The breast-screening debate in perspective
Professor Michael Baum (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Research Department of General Surgery), a critic of the current screening programme, says the system needs to be fine-tuned to assess risk more accurately.
Why lefties are handy at adapting - investigating handedness
Professor Chris McManus (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Clinical, Educational & Health Psychology) estimates that with Arabic and Urdu, among many other languages,Ìýaround 35-40 per cent of the world writes from right to left.
Australian Universities Defend Alternative-Medicine Teaching
"Courses in alternative medicine are dishonest, they teach things that aren't true, and things that are dangerous to patients in some cases," says Professor David Colquhoun (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Division of Biosciences).
Transplants and the future of intensive care
Dr Kevin Fong (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology) discusses how these important medical interventions started and, crucially, where they are heading.
Immigration Focus
Professor John Salt (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Geography) comments on a speech by the Immigration Minister Damien Green calling for the focus on immigration to change.
The Story of Thursday
Dr Chris Abram (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Scandinavian Studies) talks about Thor, and how Thursday came to be named after him.
Facebook flotation: Engineering social network success
Professor Daniel Miller (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Anthropology) talks about Facebook ahead of its stock market flotation.
'Right patient' key to early Alzheimer detection
Professor Derek Hill (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Medical Physics and Bioengineering) comments on a study which has found that a new test may be able to detect the potential for Alzheimer's in people in their 30s and 40s.
Voicegrams transform brain activity into words
Professor Sophie Scott (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Cognitive Neuroscience) and Dr Mark Lythgoe (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Centre for Biomedical Imaging) comment on a study which has decoded the brain's electrical activity and reconstructed the words a person is hearing.
Path Is Found for the Spread of Alzheimer's
Professor John Hardy (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²ÊÖÐÌØÍø Molecular Neuroscience) comments on a new study showing that Alzheimer's diseaseÌýseems to spread like an infection from brain cell to brain cell.