Will we be harmed, will it be severe, can we protect ourselves? Threat appraisals predict collective angst (and its consequences)

Can we be harmed after we are dead?

Philosophers from antiquity onwards have asked whether we are harmed by death itself [1,2]. My question is different. I want to know whether we can be harmed by further events that happen after we are dead. While connected, the two questions are clearly distinct. Someone might think that death is normally a very bad thing for the deceased, yet hold that, once you are gone, you are beyond the re...

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...

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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...

ADA Research Funding in 2009: Where Will We Be?

This decade has been disheartening to diabetes scientists, not because their scientific discovery and progress has slackened, but precisely the opposite. Scientific journals are replete with new basic and clinical research findings that fire imaginations about a better world for diabetic patients in the near future. Funding the research has been the big problem. Funds that are so critical to ou...