The United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union would make it more difficult to bring in seven day services in hospitals, an expert has warned. Julian Bion, chief investigator of a research project looking at the provision of emergency, specialist led care at weekends, said it could take 20 years before seven day services were successfully introduced. Speaking at a Science Media Centre briefi...

Saying a word out loud makes it more memorable than simply reading it silently. This robust finding has been labeled the production effect and has been attributed to the enhanced distinctiveness of produced relative to unproduced items (MacLeod et al. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36, 671-685, 2010). Produced items have the additional information that they...

Fragmented health care services are responsible for South Africa's dismal infant and maternal mortality rates while budgets are being greedily consumed by bloated and inefficient administrations that sideline clinicians at the coalface. New Health Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi said this to 200 doctors at Groote Schuur Hospital while sharing how he plans to turn the floundering health care ship a...

N ewly-elected studen t body president and vice-president, Lloyd Burke and Bob Yonchak, believe the poor tu rnout at the recen t student elections reflects the problem of com m unication betw een student governm ent and the students. In an interview yesterday, they said the 42 percen t tu rnou t is a signal to them that studen t governm ent needs m ore con tac t w ith the studen t body. Burke c...

Running across Enron Field during the Owls' baseball game on Friday seemed like a ha rmless prank to Jose De La Pena. But it laiided the Baker College senior in jail for the night, and he may face fines of up to $2,500. At the game, a group of about 25 Baker students, including De \ x Pena, along with Baker Master Mickey Quinones were sitting on the third base line. Quinones had purchased ticke...