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  Medicine

  Future doctors study pre-clinical medicine and clinical medicine to maintain health, diagnose and treat disease.

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• Science Weekly podcast: Ben Goldacre discusses homeopathy; Marcus Chown summarises quantum mechanics; plus global happiness

  Audio (42min 24sec): Sep 1 2008: Ben Goldacre and Marcus Chown discuss homeopathy, quantum physics, science coverage in the media, as well as world happiness

• Homeopathy degree suspended after criticism

  Aug 27 2008:

  The undergraduate degree in homeopathic medicine at the University of Central Lancashire has been put on hold after "relentless attacks from the anti-homeopathy league"

• New secure medical laboratory step closer

  Aug 26 2008:

  Plans to build a controversial £500m high security medical research laboratory in the heart of London are now in full swing after the architects HOK won the bid to design it

• New heights for proton therapy cancer treatment

  Aug 21 2008:

  Professor Karen Kirkby has been involved with the assembly of the world's first vertical scanning nanobeam in a new building. Michael Pollitt reports

• Reformed burglar can study to be a doctor

  Aug 8 2008:

  Teenager rejected by Imperial College for spent criminal conviction finally earns place at top medical school

• Convicted student wins place at medical school

  Aug 7 2008:

  A teenager who was told he could not become a doctor because of a conviction for burglary has won a place at a top medical school

• Richard Lower

  Jul 31 2008:

  Obituary: Pioneering US surgeon behind human heart transplant operations

• Dyslexic student fights exam system

  Jul 29 2008:

  A medical student with dyslexia is to take legal action against the General Medical Council in a bid to ban the use of multiple choice exams in doctors' training

• University had no part in student's suicide

  Jul 29 2008:

  Leeds University has been exonerated of any part in the suicide of a medical student, who killed himself by jumping from a building after he failed his course

• Medical school offers convicted student hope

  Jul 11 2008:

  A straight A-grade student who was told he couldn't become a doctor because of his spent criminal conviction has been offered an interview at a top medical school

• 'Burglary? Didn't stop me getting into college'

  Jul 8 2008:

  A senior doctor has admitted he burgled his school twice aged 16, but that it did not stop him having a successful medical career. But would you be treated by a doctor who had committed theft or burglary in their teens?

• 'Individual experience is the best guide we have'

  Jul 6 2008:

  Professor of complementary medicine Edzard Ernst investigates the extraordinary popularity of alternative therapies and asks: when it comes to relaxation techniques, how much proof should we require?

• Rammell backs student rejected by medical school

  Jul 3 2008:

  The higher education minister Bill Rammell has given his full backing to Majid Ahmed, the A-grade student whom Imperial College London refused a place to study medicine because of a spent conviction for burglary.

• One day I will become a doctor

  Jul 2 2008:

  Majid Ahmed: Imperial College showed little discretion when it withdrew the offer of a place to study because of one poor decision I made

• Defence of privilege denies student place

  Jul 2 2008:

  Letters: Your report of Imperial College's decision to withdraw the offer of a place to Majid Ahmed to study medicine once again reveals the true motives of the Russell group and the medical profession: to protect privilege and social position

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