Psychological treatment centres: Layard's vision has already started

Equine preantral follicle harvesting , processing , and in vitro culture : the journey has already started

Preantral follicles are of great abundance in mammalian ovaries and the vast majority (>99.9%) never become ovulatory; therefore, the ability to rescue these otherwise wasted follicles seems very appealing. Considering there are striking similarities in antral follicle dynamics between mares and women, the mare might become a good model to study early (preantral and antral) folliculogenesis in ...

The case for psychological treatment centres.

If you have schizophrenia or bipolar depression, you will generally get specialist help. But only about 1% of us have these terrible conditions. Very many more (15%) suffer from unipolar depression or anxiety disorders (at any one moment). If you have one of these, often crippling, conditions, you are unlikely to get any specialist help at all. You can see the GP, but the GP is unlikely to pres...

The diaspora has already begun

Purpose – In MIP, Vol. 25 No. 1, Mike Saren argued that academic marketers need to move beyond our “traditional managerial and business confines”. This paper aims to suggest that the discipline is already on the move in that direction, and that social marketing is in the vanguard. Design/methodology/approach – Commissioned as a viewpoint, with permission to “think aloud”. Findings – The paper s...

Has science started to go wrong?

Pharmacist prescribing: has the momentum started?

At a March 2012 session in Calgary on legal liability related to expanded scope of practice, numerous pharmacists vehemently criticized the Alberta government for implementing, on July 1, 2012, payment to pharmacists for renewing prescriptions. The pharmacists were not criticizing the amount of the fee but, rather, the fact that they would have to perform the activity (i.e., renew prescriptions...