Section B1c: Understanding Ourselves - Keeping Healthy

This item provides the opportunity to analyse, interpret, apply and question scientific information and ideas, including some questions that science cannot currently answer in cancer treatment and drug testing. These topics also allow the discussion of ethical issues raised and develop the skills of scientific argument and presentation of data.

Assessable learning outcomes:

Both tiers: Explain why new treatments are tested using animals, human tissue, computer models and understand objections to some forms of testing.

Higher Tier only: Describe the use of blind and double blind trials in testing new drugs against placebos.