How Science Works
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NHS choices – behind the headlines
NHS site which aims to explain the science behind health news stories.
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Sense about Science
Sense about Science are a charitable trust who aim to make sense of scientific and medical claims in public discussion.
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Testing treatments
This site is all about how drugs and treatments are tested, and how research works, there is also a link to the full text of the Testing Treatments book.
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The James Lind library
Explaining and illustrating the concept of fair tests in healthcare, including the work of James Lind on scurvy. Sections are available in Chinese and Russian.
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The pain detective
30 minute documentary from Mosaic, about development of pain killing drugs, clinical trials etc.
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Trailblazing
Site from the Royal Society looking at the past 350 years of scientific discoveries.