POSTnote
Mental Health and the Workplace
This note summarises how the workplace affects mental health and vice versa.
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Drug Resistant Tuberculosis
This note examines the extent of, and risks posed by, drug-resistant TB.
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POSTnote
Preventing Diabetes
This POSTnote describes the causes of diabetes and the known risk factors, and examines policy options for diabetes prevention.
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POSTnote
Assessing Capacity for Work
This briefing discusses the role of the Work Capability Assessment and its suitability as a gateway to benefit.
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POSTnote
Consumer Genetic Testing
This POSTnote explores the scientific, regulatory, and ethical issues related to genetic tests sold to consumers.
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POSTnote
Personalised Cancer Treatments
Recent technological advances in both diagnostics and therapeutics have the potential to make the treatment of cancer more personalised.
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POSTnote
Impacts of Video Games
There is debate surrounding the impact of violent video games on behaviour.
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POSTnote
Livestock Super Farms
This POSTnote examines the current issues surrounding intensification of livestock production in the UK.
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POSTnote
Biomedical Patents
This POSTnote considers how patent law is applied to biomedical inventions and examines the potential impact on patient access to diagnostic tests and innovation.
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POSTnote
Improving livestock
This note describes current technologies used in livestock breeding, research into future technologies and how the improvement of livestock can contribute towards future food security.
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Livestock disease
This POSTnote examines disease threats to UK livestock, outlines prevention and control measures, and looks at factors likely to contribute to future disease.
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POSTbrief
Science in the New Parliament, 2010
After every general election, POST produces a special briefing highlighting some of the main science-based issues that the new Parliament is likely to encounter.
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