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The Ageing Process and Health
This POST note examines the biological basis of ageing, the potential to manipulate the ageing process and to use such knowledge to promote better health later in life.
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Topics of Interest 2018
This list sets out the topic areas identified of possible parliamentary interest under the 9 different category headings (Agriculture, Fisheries, Food and Forestry, Crime, Defence, Education and Skills, Energy, Environment, Health, ICT and Robotics and Transport and Infrastructure).
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Mental Health Service Models for Young People
This POSTnote describes some of the new models of Children and Young People Mental Health Services (CYPMHS) and examines the challenges to their effective implementation.
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Regulating Clinical Trials
This POSTnote describes the new EU Clinical Trial Regulation and the timetable for its implementation and examines its likely impact on the regulation of clinical trials in the UK post-Brexit.
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Security of UK Food Supply
This note outlines current UK trade in food and animal feed, examines the challenges raised to the security of UK food supply by withdrawal from the EU and analyses the policy options available for improving UK food security
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Global Health Inequalities
A POSTnote which reviews trends in global health inequalities in the context of the transition from the Millennium Development Goals to Sustainable Development Goals.
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New Plant Breeding Techniques
This note outlines some of the new plant breeding techniques developed recently and looks at their applications and the regulatory challenges they raise
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Dietary Advice, Pregnancy & Breastfeeding
This note focuses on the latest UK dietary advice given to women from family planning through pregnancy and into breastfeeding.
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Genome Editing
This POSTnote covers current and future uses of genome editing, how it is regulated and the potential concerns it raises.
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Intellectual Property and Plants
This POSTnote considers the different intellectual property rights approaches available to plant breeders.
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The 100,000 Genomes Project
This POSTnote provides an introduction to genomic medicine and an overview of the aims, structure and major challenges of the 100,000 Genomes Project.
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Towards 2020 and Beyond
This note focuses on policy drivers leading towards 2020 and beyond. It looks at the relationship between UK policy and the following drivers: people (demographics), technological change, climate change, resource security and sustainability, inequality, and governance issues.
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Regulation of Synthetic Biology
Synthetic biology can be defined as the design and engineering of novel biologically-based parts, devices and systems or the redesign of existing biological systems. It may deliver potential benefits across a wide range of applications. However, some future applications may raise social and ethical issues and challenge current regulatory systems.This POSTnote examines the potential benefits and challenges.
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Obesity Treatments
A quarter of adults in the UK are clinically obese and therefore at an increased risk of developing chronic diseases. NHS advice is to eat fewer calories and take more exercise to lose weight. Increasingly, drug treatments and surgery are being considered as a means to lose weight for extremely obese people who have had difficulty in adhering to lifestyle changes. This briefing discusses the current methods used to manage and treat obesity.
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Value Based Assessment of Drugs
This briefing outlines recent proposals to change the current UK drug assessment methods.
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