Editorial: Have We Got Better in Making Our Schizophrenia Patients Better?

Making humans better and making better humans

The last 10 years has seen the development and deployment of new biotechnologies not just as potential treatments but also as potential enhancements. The definition and differentiation of treatment (therapy) from enhancement is an ongoing clinical, ethical and social debate that ranges across a proliferating number of convergent technologies. Many of these innovations will ‘come-on-line’ as pre...

Are We Examining Our Patients Properly and Can We Do a Better Job?

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debate on animal experiments in traditional medicine: do we have a better choice?

Making Better Use of the Policies and Funding We Already Have

The potential for population health reform could be enhanced by assessing whether we have made the most of policies and resources already available. Opportunities to promote population health independent of major changes in resources or public authority include the following: enforcing laws already in effect; clarifying and updating the application of long-standing policies; leveraging governme...

The Wrist Injury That Never Got Better

DESCRIPTION An 85-year-old woman involved in a motor vehicle accident presented with an incidental finding of swollen, painful left wrist that started insidiously after a fall 6 years back and progressively getting worse.