• A study of the health effects of cuts to UK disability allowance found that 725,000 more prescriptions for antidepressants were issued (21 November 2015, p 7).
• World concrete production to date has been about 500 billion tonnes, which is enough to deliver 1 kilogram to every square metre of Earth (16 January, p 14).
• A brain in a warmer vat: maverick surgeon Sergio Canavero reports cooling a monkey's head only to 15 °C before transplant (23 January, p 6).
• Whoops. The curves showing the numbers of people not having relapses of schizophrenia, with standard drug treatment and with minimal treatment, were reversed (8 February 2014, p 32).
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