Working group and taskforce reports

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    2013

  1. Strengthening academic psychiatry
  2. Representation of women within the Academy’s Fellowship

    3. 2011

  3. Guidelines for monitoring academic training and progress
  4. Animals containing human material
  5. A new pathway for the regulation and governance of health research

    6. 2010

  6. Statement on the health of women and children
  7. Biomedical research - a platform for increasing health and wealth in the UK
  8. Redressing the balance: the status and valuation of teaching in academic careers
  9. Reaping the rewards: a vision for UK medical science

    10. 2009

  10. Rejuvenating ageing research
  11. Position paper on revalidation
  12. Building clinical academic capacity and the allocation of resources across academic specialties

    13. 2008

  13. Medical research: what's it worth?
  14. Brain science, addiction and drugs

    15. 2007

  15. Identifying the environmental causes of disease
  16. Careers for biomedical scientists and clinicians in industry
  17. MB PhD position paper
  18. Response to the Review of Modernising Medical Careers
  19. Inter-species embryos
  20. Systems biology: a vision for engineering and medicine

    21. 2006

  21. Use of non-human primates in research
  22. Pandemic influenza: science to policy
  23. Medical research: assessing the benefits to society
  24. Testing antibody therapies
  25. Personal data for public good: using health information in medical research

    26. 2005

  26. Safer medicines
  27. The freedom to succeed
  28. Microbial challenge studies of human volunteers

    29. 2004

  29. Restoring neurological function: putting the neurosciences to work in neurorehab
  30. Calling time: the Nation's drinking as a major health issue

    31. 2003

  31. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
  32. Strengthening clinical research

    33. 2002

  33. Implementing the clinician scientist scheme
  34. Clinical academic medicine in jeopardy: recommendations for change
  35. Non-clinical scientists on short term contracts in medical research

    36. 2001

  36. Academic bacteriology in the 21st Century
  37. Vaccines: current status and future needs

    38. 2000

  38. The tenure-track clinician scientist: a new career pathway to promote recruitment

    39. 1999

  39. Zinc cadmium sulphide dispersion trials
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Brain science, addiction and drugs

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This report published by the Academy of Medical Sciences, considered in consultation with experts and the public, issues around three types of substance: illegal and legal ‘recreational’ drugs; medicines for mental health; and a category of substances termed ‘cognition enhancers’ that might enhance the performance of the ‘healthy’ brain in specific ways, such as enhancing short term memory or speed of thought.
 

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