Researchers Should Get Credit

Journalists, district attorneys and researchers: why IRBs should get in the middle

BACKGROUND Federal regulations in the United States have shaped Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) to focus on protecting individual human subjects. Health services research studies focusing on healthcare institutions such as hospitals or clinics do not have individual human subjects. Since U.S. federal regulations are silent on what type of review, if any, these studies require, different IRBs...

Researchers should make data freely accessible.

3 Editorial If you have ever had the pleasure of leafing through old journals you would appreciate that the journals of yesteryear were quite different. A typical article from a scientific journal of the early 20th Century was much longer than those of today. Many articles in old journals contained lots of tables but few graphs. (The graph is a remarkably recent innovation.) And, surprisingly t...

Why should researchers care about culture?

Analysis of the existing literature together with case experience reveals at least 4 implications of culture for the conduct of mental health research. Culture helps define the field of study, assists in identifying research gaps, shapes research paradigms, and supports the evolution of a cosmopolitan view of mental health.

Why Researchers Should Think “Real-Time”:

Should I get a flu shot?

There are two types of flu vaccines: the injection and the nasal spray. Injectable flu vaccines usually contain inactivated strains of types A and B flu virus and help your body to provide immunity to these two common strains of the flu. The nasal spray vaccine contains a live, but weakened version of the same strains ? but its use isn't currently recommended [2]. Any immunity from these vaccin...