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Fear And Reassurance: Communications And The NHS
Two recent issues of public concern over healthcare, though very different in their details, demonstrate some common threads in the way public opinion on such issues arises and the importance of good communications in averting such potential crises.
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Low Support For Baby Research
Despite 1 in 3 (36%) people identifying that medical research has had more impact on people's lives than any other development over the last 50 years, only 7% wanted to see the greatest medical advances over the next 50 years made into conditions relating to pregnancy and birth. This would include such complications as premature birth.
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New Figures Suggest Worsening Public Complacency Of HIV Threat In Britain
A MORI poll published today by NAT (National AIDS Trust) to mark World AIDS Day finds that two-thirds of the public in Great Britain have not changed their lifestyle in response to HIV/AIDS despite the vast majority knowing that unprotected sex is the main cause of HIV infection.
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Food For Thought: Helping Prevent Disabilities In Babies
Only about half of British women of childbearing age are aware that folic acid can help prevent spina bifida in unborn babies, according to a new survey.
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Public Support For Controversial Technologies Could Increase If Applications Are Explained
A new public opinion survey has shown that support for controversial technologies in the Life Sciences may be increased if the public is given proof that those developments are necessary in order to achieve certain benefits. A poll conducted by MORI and commissioned by Novartis UK Ltd shows that if the public can see concrete benefits arising from research it is more willing to support new technologies.
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Attitudes Towards Experimentation on Live Animals - Toplines
Q1.a On balance, do you agree or disagree that scientists should be allowed to conduct any experiments on live animals?
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Attitudes Towards Experimentation on Live Animals
What would it take for you to agree that a mouse or monkey should suffer pain or even die? To cure a life-threatening disease? Or would no scientific gain justify the animal's suffering?