When we think of urban afforestation in Brazil, what comes to mind is a mouth that has lost its teeth

Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges for dermatologists: What shall we do when we don’t know what to do?

What shall we do when we have done everything we could for the diagnosis and treatment of a patient, but were not successful? What shall we do when there is no definite treatment for a patient? What shall we do when we have no diagnosis or treatment for a patient? Some useful suggestions are presented here to get rid of these situations.

Has the science of mindfulness lost its mind?

The excitement about the application of mindfulness meditation in mental health settings has led to the proliferation of a literature pervaded by a lack of conceptual and methodological self-criticism. In this article we raise two major concerns. First, we consider the range of individual differences within the experience of meditation; although some people may benefit from its practice, others...

Has The Consumer Harm Standard Lost Its Teeth?

What We Know; What We Think

Fifteen years of research studies have concluded unanimously that spreadsheet errors are both common and non-trivial. Now we must seek ways to reduce spreadsheet errors. Several approaches have been suggested, some of which are promising and others, while appealing because they are easy to do, are not likely to be effective. To date, only one technique, cell-by-cell code inspection, has been de...

What we think and what we know.

This is an editorial that has found a voice only after a lot of struggle about what ought to be said and what ought not. In this issue, Crespo et al. (1) examined data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) and reported that postmenopausal women taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) have better lipoprotein profiles as well as some improvement in componen...