The Earth Will Be Here. Will We?

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Who will we be?: JAMA surgery !

T HE ARCHIVES OF SURGERY WILL BE OFFIcially renamed JAMA Surgery, beginning January 1, 2013; the other 8 Archives journals will be renamed similarly for their specialties. When I discussed this with the new JAMA editor, Howard Bauchner, MD, I was excited about the new name. We are uniquely linked to JAMA and this name change will broadcast that association even more vividly. The Archives of Sur...

Will We Be Ready for the Next War?

TO THE EDITOR—The title of Dr Schooley's editorial, " All's (Almost) Quiet on the Western Front: Will We Be Ready for the Next War? " [1] raises a key question: What is the role of the US Department of Defense (DoD) in the Ebola outbreak response? Because Ebola is a biological warfare threat, the DoD has been developing medical countermeasures through its biological defense program for more tha...

Imam Khomeini on God’s Will

The problem of Divine Will has been discussed in detail by Muslim philosophers, theologians and usuliun. Imam Khomeini with regard to the importance of the problem tried to study it analytically. His problems in the field can be referred to as: can the attribute of will be known as existential perfects?  Does Divine Will, while being simple and the same as Divine Essence, is the most perfect ...

When will we be ready for academic integrity?

The academic dental community has been taken aback by recent events involving student cheating. Several of these events have served as the catalyst for a number of recent journal articles on the subject, providing an invaluable overview of the problems. There have also been several articles over the last few years that have considered student behavior and how institutions can address profession...