A trip down memory lane
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The medical and scientific community is concerned that the drugs specifically designed to enhance memory that will soon become available will be used by healthy students as well as by the dementia sufferers for whom they are intended. Students account for many of the 300,000 or so Americans who already take so-called smart drugs in the belief that this will make them more intelligent. Many smart drugs are prescriptive drugs designed for other purposes yet people are using them without clinical approval or medical supervision. Memory-enhancing drugs are likely to experience the same fate.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1997
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A trip down mammary lane
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American academic Marilyn Yalom confesses that she tends to see breasts everywhere after four years of working on the breast for her acclaimed 'A History of the Breast.' Yalom, founder of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University, explains that she sees the breast becoming a commodity in the 16th century when it became common practice for babies to be sent to the country to be nursed by peasant women. She suggests that the breast has now become an anxiety index, with anxiety about breast cancer reflecting anxieties about the future of the world.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1998
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On the trail of Down's
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Tests for Down's Syndrome are expensive, not infallible and may carry risks to the baby. However, a new test called the 'Fish test' has been developed and this is cheaper and quicker.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2000
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