Racism Experiences of Urban Indigenous Women in Ontario, Canada: “We All Have That Story That Will Break Your Heart”

We do not have evidence that avoidance of succinylcholine in patients receiving statins will improve outcomes.

statin and succinylcholine, simply because they have less muscle mass. If this clinical effect in fact existed, we would been observing a pandemic of perioperative renal failure caused by myoglobinuria during the past several years, since statins are prescribed frequently for the elderly population undergoing surgical procedures in the United States, and succinylcholine has not been contra-indi...

Dark Chocolate and Metabolic Syndrome; Do Polyphenols All that Matter?

Academic nepotism – all that glitters is not gold

Dear Editor With increasing emphasis on publications forfaculty recruitment, career advancementand obtaining research grants, the issues relatedto author kinship and academic nepotism havegrown significantly and these probably reflectthe inflationary growth rather than the optimalgrowth warranted due to increasing researchcomplexity. Allesina S (1) measured the fullmagnitude of nepotism in the ...

Studying Intraindividual Variability: What We Have Learned That Will Help Us Understand Lives in Context

We examine some features of intraindividual variability and the research outcomes from its study. Selected current modeling techniques focused on individual-level analyses are briefly discussed, including some promising applications stemming from dynamical systems theory work. We turn these ideas into issues prominent in the study of behavioral development and examine how the general intraindiv...

Ten essential BJSM podcasts that will improve your practice.

1. DIAGNOSING AND TREATING ACUTE HAMSTRING INJURIES In BJSM’s all-time favourite podcast, Dutch sports physician Robert-Jan de Vos has Guustaaf Reurink explain his 2014 NEJM paper on the role of platelet-rich plasma in acute hamstring injuries (https://goo.gl/ oGVjA8). They also discuss the value of clinical tests and MRI in acute hamstring injuries, and whether they can predict return to play ...