Charity that begins at home ends in the lab
Universities get 20 per cent of their income from charitable organisations, writes Diana Garnham It is estimated that more than 1,000 charitable organisations support some medical research in the...
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Healthy liaisons with the drug barons
Frank Wells on the relationship between university research and pharmaceutical companies There has never been a more important time for industry and academia to be working together. Industry needs...
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Century of heroes in clime of cholera
THE WELLCOME TRUST ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF TROPICAL DISEASES Edited by F. E. G. Cox Wellcome Trust, 452pp, Pounds 35.00 ISBN - 1869835 86 7 As a scientific speciality, tropical medicine is barely 100...
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War on 'superbugs'
Ian Chopra on developments at Leeds's Antimicrobial Research Centre Before the introduction of antibiotics in the 1940s many people died from bacterial infections. The advent of antibiotics...
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Cocaine comes out of the ghetto
A VERY GREEDY DRUG: COCAINE IN CONTEXT By Jason Ditton and Richard Hammersley Harwood Academic Publishers, 160pp, Pounds 11.00 ISBN - 3 7186 5904 2 Insubstantial media scares about new illicit drugs...
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Christmas myth exploded
THE CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF MEDICINE Edited by Roy Porter Cambridge University Press 400pp, Pounds 24.95 ISBN - 0 521 4412117 When I was a medical student in the 1950s a distinguished...
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The doctors' fairy godmother
George Radda looks at the evolving financial relationship between the Medical Research Council and academia The Medical Research Council plays a crucial role in advancing clinical practice in the...
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Letter
In the start of a debate about the pros and cons of a superleague of universities in the United Kingdom, Frank Webster stated that the "1996 research assessment exercise demonstrated nothing if not...
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Letter
In arguing that the diversity of the higher education system should be recognised, Frank Webster proposes the designation of an elite group of research universities and suggests that, in time,...
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Letter
You report (THES, January 10) that environmental scientists feel that they were done down by the earth scientists in the recent RAE. One test of their allegation is to look at changes in rating of...
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Letter
Your readers must be thoroughly confused about which university in Northern Ireland received which top ratings in the RAE. Your story (THES, January 3) stated - incorrectly - that Queen's received...
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Exiled by foes, silenced by friends
Trapped for the moment in the West, what can Edward Said do for the only place he ever felt he 'belonged', his native Palestine? Jennifer Wallace met him in London Intellectuals ought to be attuned...
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Phil Redmond
(Photograph) - Head start: Phil Redmond, creator of TV soap Brookside and honorary professor at Liverpool John Moores University was the first viewer of the Web site promoting JMU's Millennium...
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Ulster apologies
The Thes January 3 issue reported that Queen's University received top ratings in the research assessment exercise for its research on cancer, ageing and diet. It is in fact the University of Ulster...
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Cornwall delayed
Exeter University's bid to build a Cornwall campus at Trereife, Penzance, has hit a hitch. The Millennium Commission has deferred a decision on a Pounds 35 million grant for a second time pending a...