Smoking alters brain 'like drugs'
Smoking cigarettes causes the same changes to the brain as using illicit drugs like cocaine, a study suggests.
27 Feb 2007
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Black soya 'cuts diabetes risk'
Eating black soya beans could lower fat and cholesterol levels and may help prevent diabetes, a study suggests.
27 Feb 2007
Drug may boost Down's performance
Scientists believe they have found evidence of a drug which alleviates the learning difficulties associated with Down's Syndrome. A Stanford University team in the US looked at a drug once tested as an epilepsy treatment in the 1950s.
27 Feb 2007
RNIB drops white stick from logo
The Royal National Institute of the Blind is to drop the distinctive white stick from its logo in an image revamp.
27 Feb 2007
1.7m 'will have dementia by 2051'
More than 1.7 million people in the UK will have dementia by 2051, costing billions of pounds each year, experts have forecast.
27 Feb 2007
Making your Literature Accessible
The Department of Constitutional Affairs (now the Ministry of Justice) in November 2006 issued new regulations aimed at improving disabled people's access to the electoral system. These regulations focus on the voting system itself but little attention has been paid to how parties communicate their messages.
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26 Feb 2007