Editorial: Do we need to teach ethics to PhD students?

Do we need research ethics committees?

This issue of the journal sees a number of exchanges on significant ethical problems. ‘Nudges’ have attracted a good deal of attention recently in the context of the ethics of public health interventions. Martin Wilkinson (see page 486) writes a guest editorial introducing important debate on Yashar Saghai’s featured article, Salvaging the concept of nudge (see page 487, Editor’s choice). Also,...

Editorial: Computational Neuroscience and Modeling of Diseases: Do We Need New Paradigms?

Ramadan fasting: Do we need more evidence?

Over a billion of Muslims fast worldwide during Ramadan each year. Through this religious custom, fasting contributes to their health as well as their spiritual growth. However, available evidence regarding the health-benefits of Ramadan fasting is scarce and highly contentious. Although Islam exempts patients from fasting, many fast conceivably, and their clinical condition is prone to deterio...

Staff Burnout… Do we need any intervention?

Dear Editor, As you know physical and mental wellness of physicians and nurses, as the main role in the treatment of patients, in conditions such as burnout, compassion fatigue, depression, and poor work-life balance, is one of the top priorities in the U.S.A. National Academy of Medicine  (1-4). Although healthcare team members are generally known as a caregiver to others;  their h...

What Do You Need to Know to Use a Search Engine? Why We Still Need to Teach Research Skills

WINTER 2015 61 What does it mean to know something in the age of the search engine? To put it another way, how does a search engine transform human cognition, knowledge, and learning? Web search tools are in many ways probably the most sophisticated AI systems that most people use on a daily basis. They’re expressly designed for straightforward walk-up use without instruction, and in the vast m...