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Biomedical science and the general election
by Juliet Tizzard
It's been another week of electioneering in Britain, so any issue which isn't a vote winner is still absent from the media. As David Derbyshire and Roger Highfield discover in the Daily Telegraph last week, science is barely mentioned. Of course health is a big issue in the election, particularly...