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	<title>Policy News</title>
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		<title>MRC: Medical Research Council: Leading science for better health</title>
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 		<title>Invitation to comment on new MRC guidance on good research practice</title>
		<link>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC008445</link>
		<description>The MRC is currently revising the principles and guidelines on good research practice and we would welcome views on the new draft.</description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 		<title>Improving links with health-related industry</title>
		<link>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC003723</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 		<title>MRC congratulates new Royal Society Fellows</title>
		<link>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC001926</link>
		<description>The Royal Society has announced that forty-four scientists, across all fields and from all over the world, are to join its ranks. Of these, a number belong to the wider MRC family.</description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 May 2006 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 		<title>The Medical Research Council welcomes the first ever analysis of health research funding in the UK</title>
		<link>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC001925</link>
		<description>The Medical Research Council (MRC) welcomes the first comprehensive analysis of health research in the UK.</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 May 2006 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 		<title>Biomedical regulation workshop shapes long-term goals</title>
		<link>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC005615</link>
		<description>A report of the meeting identifies a long-term goal – to analyse the wide range of issues associated with regulation and ultimately achieve an optimum regulatory environment to support biomedical research.</description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 		<title>PM reiterates support for science</title>
		<link>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC005639</link>
		<description>Gordon Brown has reconfirmed the Government’s support for science in a speech in Oxford today.</description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 		<title>Business case for renewal of MRC’s NIMR</title>
		<link>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC003328</link>
		<description>MRC Councils views and actions regarding the development of the NIMR business case at its October 2006 meeting.</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 		<title>MRC response to HFEA consultation: 'Donating eggs for research: Safeguarding donors'.</title>
		<link>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC003456</link>
		<description>The MRC has submitted its response to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority’s consultation on ‘Donating eggs for research: Safeguarding donors’.</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 		<title>Publishers and Funders reach agreement on open access and re-use rights</title>
		<link>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC004081</link>
		<description>The UK PubMed Central Publishers Panel  has agreed a set of principles in relation to the re-use of documents for which an open access fee has been paid.</description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:02:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 		<title>Sir Leszek calls for renewed understanding between science advisers and government</title>
		<link>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC006465</link>
		<description>In response to Professor David Nutt’s dismissal, Sir Leszek Borysiewicz highlights the need for scientists and policy-makers to work together.</description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 		<title>Code of Practice for the Supply of Aquatics in Research</title>
		<link>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC004201</link>
		<description>A document directed at the MRC’s own staff, but also relevant to those working in Universities, which aims to minimise the avoidable production of surplus fish and amphibians.</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 		<title>MRC Delivery Plan for 2008-09 to 2010-11 published</title>
		<link>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC004270</link>
		<description>The Delivery Plan summarises how the MRC will use its resources during the next Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) period (2008/09–2010/11).</description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 		<title>New Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics</title>
		<link>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC004296</link>
		<description>The Nuffield Foundation, the MRC and the Wellcome Trust are delighted to announce the appointment of Albert Weale, Professor of Government at the University of Essex, as Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, from 1 January 2008.</description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 		<title>MRC board structures – changes agreed at the MRC’s December 2007 Council meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC004303</link>
		<description>How the MRC will change the Research Boards structure, and additional changes to strategy and advisory groups.</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 		<title>An independent monitoring committee has recommended the continuation of a trial of a vaginal gel aimed at reducing the spread of HIV, but the closure of one arm</title>
		<link>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC004378</link>
		<description>The Microbicides Development Programme Trial Steering Committee has closed one arm of the PRO 2000/5 trial following recommendation from the Independent Data Monitoring Committee.</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 		<title>The MRC and the Redfern Inquiry</title>
		<link>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC004382</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 		<title>MRC-developed brain-cooling treatment reaches families</title>
		<link>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC006860</link>
		<description>A procedure developed by scientists at the Medical Research Council (MRC) which saves the lives of babies starved of oxygen at birth has been deemed “safe and effective” for NHS use by The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).</description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 		<title>Update from the MRC's March 2008 Council meeting</title>
		<link>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC004526</link>
		<description>Research board portfolios and changes agreed at the MRC's March 2008 Council meeting.</description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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 		<title>Budget provides unrivalled opportunity for research</title>
		<link>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC002004</link>
		<description>The Medical Research Council has warmly welcomed the Chancellor’s Budget statement.</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC002004</guid>
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 		<title>Developing Antiretroviral Therapy in Africa (DART) – Policy Recommendations</title>
		<link>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC007051</link>
		<description>Trial participants, practitioners and investigators explain how maintaining and scaling-up access to Antiretroviral Therapy in low and middle income countries could be possible on current funding levels.</description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
		<guid>http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Newspublications/News/MRC007051</guid>
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