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
Smoking cigarettes causes the same changes to the brain as using illicit drugs like cocaine, a study suggests.
Eating black soya beans could lower fat and cholesterol levels and may help prevent diabetes, a study suggests.
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.
The Royal National Institute of the Blind is to drop the distinctive white stick from its logo in an image revamp.
More than 1.7 million people in the UK will have dementia by 2051, costing billions of pounds each year, experts have forecast.
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.