Medicine

Editor Robert Adams. Edition First. Publisher Palgrave Macmillan. Pages 568. Price £24.99. ISBN 9781403998866.

Authors Barbara Kozier, Glenora Erb, Audrey Berman, Shirlee Snyder, Richard Lake and Sharon Harvey. Edition First. Publisher Pearson Education. Pages 808. Price £29.99. ISBN 9780131976535.

Authors Mark Foss and Tony Farine. Edition Second. Publisher Pearson Education. Pages 504. Price £24.99. ISBN 9780131869028.

Complementary therapies can and should be studied with scientific rigour, argues David Peters, so that medicine as a whole may benefit

Authors Robert M. Klein and George C. Enders. Edition Third. Publisher McGraw-Hill. Pages 576. Price £16.99. ISBN 9780071471855.

Neuroscience. Authors Dale Purves, George J. Augustine, David Fitzpatrick, William C. Hall, Anthony-Samuel Lamantia, James O. McNamara and Leonard E. White. Edition Fourth. Publisher Sinauer Associates. Pages 810. Price £48.99. ISBN 9780878936977.

Author Rudolf Nieuwenhuys. Edition Fourth. Publisher Springer-Verlag. Pages 970. Price £53.00. ISBN 9783540346845.

Author Robert E. and Robert D. Kingsley. Edition First. Publisher Humana/Springer. Price £61.00. ISBN 9781588297983.

Immunity: The Immune Response in Infectious and Inflammatory Disease. Authors Anthony DeFranco, Richard Locksley and Miranda Robertson. Edition First. Publisher Oxford University Press. Pages 350. Price £27.99. ISBN 9780199206148

Introduction to Statistics for Nurses. Authors John Maltby, Liz Day and Glenn Williams. Edition First. Publisher Pearson Education. Pages 288. Price £24.99. ISBN 9780131967533.

Editors Sarah Earle and Gayle Letherby. Edition First. Publisher Palgrave Macmillan. Pages 344. Price £19.99. ISBN 9781403940803.

General Anatomy: Principles and Applications. Authors Norman Eizenberg, Christopher Briggs, Craig Adams and Gerard Ahern. Edition First. Publisher McGraw-Hill. Pages 258. Price £29.99. ISBN 9780070134140.

Principles of Human Physiology. Authors Cindy L. Stanfield and William J. Germann. Edition Third. Publisher Pearson Education. Pages 848. Price £49.99. ISBN 9780321455062.

Author Allan Siegel. Edition Sixth. Publisher McGraw-Hill. Pages 370. Price £16.99. ISBN 9780071471804.

New protocols require grant-seekers to show that they will apply 3Rs rigorously, Zoe Corbyn writes

Cambridge leads the field in producing Nobel science laureates, but many of the UK's best scientists have left to pursue work in the US. Matthew Reisz finds out from past winners what tempted them to go and why many feel the tide is turning in the UK's favour

The ban on performance-boosting substances in sport is a self-satisfied nonsense, argues historian Geoffrey Alderman in a fortnightly series allowing academics to step outside their area of expertise

A Bill allowing the creation of interspecies hybrids and reproductive cloning would bring UK science into disrepute, argues David Jones

Universities warned that anti-research campaigners could attack from within. Chloe Stothart reports

Short ethics courses for members of medical and research committees are proliferating. But do they equip people with the tools needed to make what could be life-and-death decisions? Esther Oxford reports

A review of euthanasia and end-of-life issues may help to spur legislative change, says Julie Stone

Academics aren't trained for it and often can't cope with it, yet many find themselves counselling students at risk of emotional breakdown and even suicide. Esther Oxford talks to lecturers who have been affected

MRC distributes £15m to help turn discoveries into applications that advance patient care. Zoe Corbyn reports