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Quaternary Prevention, an Answer of Family Doctors to Overmedicalization

In response to the questioning of Health Policy and Management (HPAM) by colleagues on the role of rank and file family physicians in the same journal, the author, a family physician in Belgium, is trying to highlight the complexity and depth of the work of his colleagues and their contribution to the understanding of the organization and economy of healthcare. It addresses, in particular, the ...

Is there an answer?

Is There an Answer? is intended to serve as a forum in which readers to IUBMB Life may pose questions of the type that intrigue biochemists but for which there may be no obvious answer or one may be available but not widely known or easily accessible. Readers are invited to e-mail [email protected] if they have questions to contribute or if they can provide answers to questions that are provi...

Extrans, an Answer Extraction System

Les systèmes d’Extraction de Réponses (ER) récupèrent dans des documents des expressions qui répondent directement à des questions du langage courant. L’ER pour des manuels techniques exige un haut niveau de rappel et de précision ; pourtant, ce sont de petites unités de texte qui doivent être récupérées. C’est pourquoi il est important d’effectuer une analyse linguistique détaillée. Nous prése...

What is an organism? An immunological answer.

The question, "What is an organism?," formerly considered as essential in biology, has now been increasingly replaced by a larger question, "What is a biological individual?" On the grounds that i) individuation is theory-dependent, and ii) physiology does not offer a theory, biologists and philosophers of biology have claimed that it is the theory of evolution by natural selection that tells u...

An atypical pigmented lesion—Answer