Article: It is difficult for anyone to acknowledge that an idea he or she has been leaching may be invalid. I faced this situation several years ago and, after a period of vacillation, concluded that heritability analysis, the dominant paradigm in behavioural genetics, was not merely weak at its foundations but actively misleading to the nonspecialist; hence, it ought to be relegated to the his...

A huge epidemic of smoking-related deaths is forecast for China, whose inhabitants account for 20% of the world's population and smoke 30% of the world's cigarettes. A study carried out in Hong Kong and reported in the 18 August British Medical Journal suggests that estimated deaths in China caused by smoking could rise from the current 1 million a year to about 3 million a year during the 2040...

BACKGROUND Interprofessional education (IPE) aims to bring together different professionals to learn with, from, and about one another in order to collaborate more effectively in the delivery of safe, high-quality care for patients/clients. Given its potential for improving collaboration and care delivery, there have been repeated calls for the wider-scale implementation of IPE across education...

The traditional view of atherosclerosis as a lipid storage disease crumbles in the face of extensive and growing evidence that inflammation participates centrally in all stages of this disease, from the initial lesion to the end-stage thrombotic complications. Investigators now appreciate that narrowing arteries do not necessarily presage myocardial infarction and that simply treating narrowed ...

Various clinical and epidemiological data have suggested the possibility of infectious mechanisms in schizophrenia. In addition, lengthy prodromal psychiatric symptoms can presage the development of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a prototypical prion disorder. Accordingly, the presence of human protease resistant prion proteins (PrP) was assessed in postmortem frontal cortical and thalamic tissues ...