We are not alone! (At least, most of us aren't)

Global implementation of genomic medicine: We are not alone.

Around the world, innovative genomic-medicine programs capitalize on singular capabilities arising from local health care systems, cultural or political milieus, and unusual selected risk alleles or disease burdens. Such individual efforts might benefit from the sharing of approaches and lessons learned in other locales. The U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute and the National Academy...

You are not alone.

A DBT Support Group may be able to benefit you. DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) is a proven approach to therapy used to help persons who have difficulty managing emotions. • Like you keep "losing it?" • Like you have problems with anger and/or high levels of anxiety? • Drastic mood swings/ quickly shifting from one emotion to another? • Like harming yourself in any way? • Like relationships ...

You are not alone!

“They are Us—We are Them”

Stigmatization towards persons with mental illnesses is a major quality of care concern. Unfortunately, nurses are no less implicated than other health professions. This article reports the results of an evaluation of a learning intervention for psychiatric nursing students in partnership between Brandon University and the Mental Health Commission of Canada. We describe this intervention as an ...

At least some protist species are not ubiquitous.

Body size is one of the main regulators of the ecological characteristics of living organisms, including their biogeography. The 'ubiquity hypothesis' for microorganisms states that they are widely distributed, if not cosmopolitan, due to their small size that allows passive dispersal, in contrast to large organisms that are limited by geographical barriers in their active dispersal. Such idea,...