How can we Pinpoint Genetic Involvement in Antidepressant-Induced Suicide?

How can we enhance the value of laboratory tests?

Today, the pressures on the healthcare systems for the controlling of the costs are extreme and all sectors try to demonstrate the value of their services by justifying the activities and expenditures so the value can be describe in terms like quality, efficiency, effectiveness, patient satisfaction, cost effectiveness .The value of the lab testing is generally directed to their costs and the c...

How can we know whether antidepressants increase suicide risk?

In this issue of the Journal, Gibbons and colleagues use pharmacy records and mortality data to examine the association between rates of antidepressant use and rates of suicide death in children and younger adolescents. They find that U.S. counties with higher rates of SSRI antidepressant use had lower rates of suicide death, and that this relationship persisted after accounting for potential c...

Can we rely on suicide mortality data?

How we remember what we can do

According to the motor simulation theory, the knowledge we possess of what we can do is based on simulation mechanisms triggered by an off-line activation of the brain areas involved in motor control. Action capabilities memory does not work by storing some content, but consists in the capacity, rooted in sensory-motor systems, to reenact off-line action sequences exhibiting the range of our po...

We can train them, but how can we retain them?

To the Editor: The Department of Surgery at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine is proud of its 100% pass rate in the October 2008 Colleges of Medicine of South Africa examinations held in Durban. Most candidates attended the graduation and joined the 3 who passed in May as registered specialists in general surgery. This represents a stalwart effort on the part of the candidates and their t...