A sheep-eating plant is set to bloom over the next few days in a Surrey garden. In its natural habitat of the Andes, the 3m-tall Puya chilensis snares the animals in its razor-sharp spines, leaving them to perish and decay at its base – like a bag of fertiliser.
Tuesday 09 April 2013
Reflexology may be as effective as painkillers, according to a new scientific survey.
Saturday 06 April 2013
Demand is 50% higher than expected at emergency clinics, as outbreak worsens in North-East
Friday 05 April 2013
UK-based doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals were given £40m by big pharmaceutical companies in just one year, according to the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI).
Friday 05 April 2013
Ringmaster Robert Birk tells Tony Paterson how 60 new recruits kept his show on the road
Friday 05 April 2013
UK-based doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals were given £40m by big pharmaceutical companies in just one year, according to the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI).
Friday 05 April 2013
UK-based doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals were given £40 million by big pharmaceutical companies in just one year, figures suggest.
Friday 05 April 2013
“Nerve agent” pesticides should be banned until science has established whether they are to blame for the rate at which bumblebees and other insects are vanishing from the countryside, a committee of MPs has urged.
Thursday 04 April 2013
Unite and Unison back mass action for the first time since 1926
Tuesday 02 April 2013
The marketing behind Bioshock Infinite would have you believe it's a First Person Shooter. And yes, you can kill lots of people in quite horrid ways. A lot of these ways involve guns. But I can’t help thinking, more and more, that this isn’t simply another “machine gun” game.
Monday 01 April 2013
Energy chief believes controversial method will safeguard supply
Monday 01 April 2013
For Sourabh Ghosh, it was nothing less than a matter of life or death.
Monday 01 April 2013
The judges’ decision will help secure the supply of affordable medicines for millions of the world’s poorest
Monday 01 April 2013
Health activists have welcomed a decision by India’s highest court not to grant a patent to a drugs manufacturer in a case campaigners say will help safeguard the ability of people around the world to afford life-saving medicine.
Sunday 31 March 2013
Leicester had a fantastic prelude to this week's Heineken Cup quarter-final with their record league win away to Northampton, 36-8 at Franklin's Gardens on Saturday. Then the chastening news came in that Tigers' European opponents Toulon had done even better with a 43-11 thrashing of Stade Français under the roof of the Grand Stade Lille Métropole in northern France.
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