Consortium News
July 2009
Too few women in clinical trials?
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Cancer-drug studies fail to reflect true incidence of disease in the population.
Neuroscience centre thinks big
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem officially announced the establishment of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC), which will aim at becoming one of the world's top five institutes for studying the brain.
Drug quells anxiety in early trials
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A compound that stimulates production of the brain steroids that regulate the effect of the relaxation-promoting molecule GABA could fill a need for better anxiety treatments.
Science journalism: Breaking the convention
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Blogs and Twitter are opening up meetings to those not actually there. Does that mean too much access to science in the raw, asks Geoff Brumfiel.