Those who yearn for a world in which policies are based on a systematic and dispassionate assessment of the evidence can find little encouragement in the ongoing debate about the safety of hospitals at weekends. Almost nothing is clear in this tangled tale. It began when the health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, claimed on the BBC Today programme that there were 6000 avoidable deaths each year and a l...

Schwartz Center rounds were piloted by the King's Fund in 2009 and other hospital trusts have now taken up the concept. The rounds provide a forum for staff to discuss social and emotional issues surrounding patient care, and lead to changes in the workplace.

Sirtuins are thought to form crucial links between energy levels and cellular metabolism. Libert et al. now provide evidence that SIRT1 activity in the brain modifies mammalian emotional behavior via monoamine signaling and that changes in this pathway might contribute to human affective disorders.

aim and background:  major depressive disorder (mdd) has physically and psychological effect on individuals with that disorder. one of the effective areas is emotion expression styles and metacognitive beliefs that has important role in interpersonal and between individual relationships. the purpose of this research was study of emotion expression styles and metacognitive beliefs in individuals...