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  1. Academy Fellow apointed as new MRC Chief Executive
  2. 2010 Sackler Lecture - bookings open
  3. Review of arm’s-length bodies
  4. Evaluation tender
  5. Health White Paper highlights Academy study
  6. New Honorary Officer
  7. First steps
  8. Academy to conduct review of UK medical research regulation and governance
  9. Queen's Birthday Honours
  10. Closing the gap - £400,000 to go
  11. New Fellows Elected 2010
  12. International Health Lecture
  13. Policy internship scheme
  14. Academy seeking public views on research using animals containing human material
  15. Damaging gulf growing between teaching and research in UK universities
  16. Reaping the rewards: a vision for UK medical sciences
  17. Animals containing human material
  18. Update on the EU Animals in Research Directive
  19. Merger of the GMC and Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board
  20. Fellows recognised in New Year Honours 2010
  21. Statement on climate change
  22. Global health perspectives
  23. Rejuvenating ageing research
  24. Jean Shanks Lecture - genetic fingerprinting and beyond
  25. Research in general practice: 'bringing innovation into patient care'
  26. Academia, industry and the NHS: collaboration and innovation
  27. Position paper on revalidation
  28. ACMD to assess cognition enhancers
  29. Genome studies report launched
  30. Foulkes Foundation Medal
  31. Hype, hope and hybrids
  32. Academy Vice-President awarded Royal Medal
  33. Southampton symposium: translating new research into clinical practice
  34. Fellows recognised in Queen's Birthday Honours
  35. Academy makes recommendations to build clinical academic capacity
  36. Job vacancy: Policy Officer
  37. Global health diagnostics: research, development and regulation
  38. Academy review 2009
  39. The Bologna Process: Will it affect UK biomedical and clinical science?
  40. Global mental health report
  41. Fellows recognised in New Year Honours
  42. Raymond and Beverly Sackler Lecture
  43. New Honorary Fellows elected
  44. Economic benefits of medical research
  45. New grants scheme for Clinical Lecturers
  46. New fellowship scheme launched
  47. Five new Clinician Scientist Fellowships awarded
  48. New Headquarters for Academy
  49. Autumn programme of national mentoring and outreach scheme workshops announced
  50. Presidential perspectives
  51. Professor Hans Rosling to give International Health Lecture
  52. Jean Shanks Lecture 2008
  53. Brain science, addiction and drugs
  54. Fellows recognised in Queen's Birthday Honours
  55. New Fellows Elected to Academy
  56. Academy advises MPs on HFE Bill
  57. Fellows communications survey
  58. PMETB approves Academy guidelines
  59. Optimizing stratified medicines R&D
  60. Innovative Medicines Initiative
  61. Academy responds to the Tooke Report
  62. Fellows recognised in New Year Honours
  63. Innovative Medicines Initiative
  64. Clinician Scientist Fellowship Scheme - Application process now closed
  65. Identifying the environmental causes of disease
  66. Honorary Fellow elected
  67. First Foulkes Foundation Medal Awarded
  68. Academy responds to MHRA consultation
  69. Launch of the Clinician Scientist Fellowship scheme
  70. Academy response to Comprehensive Spending Review
  71. Academy Fellow awarded Nobel Prize for Medicine
  72. Academy launches report on biomedical careers in Industry
  73. Academy of Medical Sciences International Health Lecture
  74. Inter-species embryos
  75. Academy responds to Modernising Medical Careers Inquiry
  76. Backing for UK Strategy on non-human primate research
  77. New Fellows Elected
  78. Modernising Medical Careers Inquiry
  79. Job vacancies
  80. Website launched to promote careers in bioscience
  81. Systems Biology: a vision for engineering and medicine
  82. Academy launches national debate on drugs and drug use
  83. Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs: public and stakeholder engagement
  84. MB PhD Symposium
  85. The use of non-human primates in research
  86. Pandemic Influenza: science to policy
  87. Non-experimental methods
  88. Non-experimental methods
  89. Consultation response: 'Reform of research funding and assessment'
  90. Consultation response: 'Public health - ethical issues'
  91. Sir David Cooksey's Review of UK Health Research
  92. Science of Violence
  93. Careers in Industry Working Group: Call for Evidence
  94. MB PhD Working Group: Call for Evidence
  95. Appointment of a new Registrar
  96. Medical research: assessing the benefits to society
  97. Experimental Medicine Symposium
  98. Testing Antibody Therapies
  99. Academy of Medical Sciences Appoints New President
  100. Pandemic Influenza
  101. Personal data for public good: using health information in medical research
  102. 2006 Annual Forum Lecture
  103. Safer Medicines
  104. The Freedom to Succeed
  105. Forum Medical Science Briefings
  106. Council Election 2006
  107. Lecture on International Health
  108. Medical science can contribute to reducing violent crime
  109. Council Nominations
  110. Appointment of Foreign Secretary
  111. Job vacancy: Policy Officer
  112. Job vacancy: Finance Officer
  113. Job vacancy
  114. Job vacancy: Programme Manager
  115. International strategy launch
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Academy launches national debate on drugs and drug use

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The Academy has launched a national debate on drugs and drug use. The call comes in light of the establishment of an Academy of Medical Sciences working group set up to explore the impact of scientific developments that could lead to new drugs to enhance the performance of healthy brains, enable new treatments for mental health problems and give an improved understanding of drug addiction.

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