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On 23 March the people of Sweden will be voting in a referendum on nuclear power policy. Wendy Barnaby writes from Stockholm that the exercise is intended to meet party political rather than major policy objectives
The research and introduction of new drugs has been slowing down in the UK and the US. At the same time, government regulations on the safety of new drugs have increased. But Fred Steward and George Wibberley argue that there is not a simple relationship between these two trends