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COI synopsis: Scientific and technological progress is self-defeating unless accompanied by increases in safety. This week, we look at examples of this progress aimed precisely at increasing the most...
COI synopsis: Hearing tests are vital for young children, to discover early on if their hearing is impaired; without them, a child may never develop proper speech. Routine tests have always been...
COI synopsis: Recent research has discovered that one cause of severe stammering may be the inhibition caused by the stammerer hearing his own voice as he speaks. The result is an unobtrusive gadget which...
COI synopsis: With oil drilling now taking place at increased depths, research into the capaciy of divers working under immense water pressure is crucial. There are limits to this pressure, which will...
COI synopsis: Normally, the front of the eye is full of a cleansing fluid which seeps from behind the lens and escapes through tiny ducts at the edge of the iris. Should those ducts be blocked, blindness...
COI synopsis: Scientists in Cambridge, in their research into human language, have used computer models which create line displays representing the shape of the vocal tract during speech. Their computer...
COI synopsis: A surgeon investigating the possibility of cancer in a patient will want to guage the malignancy of the particular tumour before proceeding with hazardous major surgery. How can he do it? The...
COI synopsis: In the African tropics, men toil on the fertile banks of rivers in the hope of feeding their families. The price they pay is blindness. They are bitten by blackflies - a disease-carrying insect...
COI synopsis: Heart disease is one of the biggest killers in industrialised societies, and an important source of problems can be diseases of the heart muscle itself. A new diagnostic tool allows minute...
COI synopsis: A single surgical operation can take up to 15 pints of blood to allow it to go ahead - and medical research needs a constant supply too. In Britain, people give blood voluntarily and Maggie...
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