Gene editing isn’t just about food: comments from U.S. focus groups

Communicating about overdiagnosis: Learning from community focus groups on osteoporosis

BACKGROUND Overdiagnosis is considered a risk associated with the diagnosis of osteoporosis-as many people diagnosed won't experience harm from the condition. As yet there's little evidence on community understanding of overdiagnosis outside cancer- where it is an established risk of some screening programs-or effective ways to communicate about it. We examined community understanding around ov...

Comments heard by US medical students about family practice.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to explore the hypothesis that negative comments from faculty and residents about family practice are related to the recent decline in student selection of this specialty. METHODS A questionnaire was sent to all family physicians and an equal number of other primary care physicians who graduated from one of 24 medical schools in 1997-1999. Tw...

Just a gene: judicial assumptions about parenthood.

Factors influencing food choices of food-allergic consumers: findings from focus groups.

BACKGROUND Up to 35% of the population modify their diet for adverse reactions to food. This study described the food choice behaviour of diagnosed food-allergic (DFA), self-reported food-allergic or intolerant (SFA) and nonfood-allergic (NFA) consumers, and explored differences between them. METHODS Six focus groups with adults (n = 44) were conducted. Data analysis was performed using thema...

Just for us?

It is a regrettable decision by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology that ANKA, the Angströmquelle Karlsruhe, is terminating its external synchrotron user support program. ANKA has an excellent performance review grading sheet and has been a valuable source and resource to international users for over a decade. There is concern among users that ANKA's decision could become an example for other syn...