MRC faces negligence claims over growth hormone victims

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Great Britain's Medical Research Council (MRC) faces allegations of negligence in the experimental treatment of children using human growth hormone (hGH). The experiments carried out in the 1960s and 1970s involved the use of hGH from the pituitary glands of deceased people. Families of the victims have initiated legal action against MRC and the Department of Health for breach of duty with respect to the care of children. Families allege that the link between contaminated hGH and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was ignored and the methods of extraction of the hormone were not safe.

Research, Cases, Medical research, Human experimentation in medicine, Human medical experimentation, Somatotropin, Medicine, Experimental, United Kingdom. National Institute for Medical Research

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Unloved academics: British university teachers, already badly paid, have been done out of a pay-rise they deserved

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The British government believes university teachers are overpaid and underworked and so have limited their annual pay increase to 5% from 7% when the truth is that the teachers are underpaid and have salaries well below inflation rate. The university system is supposedly autonomous but is funded by the government and so is subject to the government's beliefs. The present education policy will lead to a second-rate university system and has already discouraged research because of inadequate compensation.

Editorial, Compensation and benefits, College teachers, College faculty

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Support for teaching 'could boost university research.'(financial support to UK universities)

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The UK National Academies Policy Advisory Group stresses feels some funds for university research should be shifted to teaching, which should actually enhance both teaching and reasearch by providing each a clearer focus. The group recommends the efficient use of existing resources and the allocation of 50 mil pounds for the improvement of professional development and teaching. The group emphasizes the importance of better coordination between research and teaching.

Federal aid to research, Government aid to research, Federal aid to higher education, Government aid to higher education

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