As the recent Ebola epidemic demonstrated, the world is not only smaller than ever, but it is also more intricately connected. Exotic diseases once confined to the third or developing world are now everyone's concern. Global has truly become local. Having some knowledge of and com-petencies in global health is not only relevant , but also essential, for every family physician. Many family physi...

From plant research to biomedicine, proteome analysis plays a critical role in many areas of biological inquiry. Steady improvement in mass spectrometer (MS) technology has transformed the speed and depth of proteome analysis. Proteomes of simple organisms can now be sequenced to near completion in just over an hour. Comparable coverage of mammalian proteomes, however, still requires hours or e...

The CODATA Constitution begins with a list of goals in its mission, and first on the list is "The promotion of the evaluation and, in general, the quality control of data ...." Data quality was foremost in the minds of the early leaders of CODATA. The first President, Frederick Rossini, had developed a program for systematic evaluation of thermodynamic data and had established a continuing data...

Social media, such as blogs, are often seen as democratic entities that allow more voices to be heard than the conventional mass or elite media. Some also feel that social media exhibits a balancing force against the arguably slanted elite media. A systematic comparison between social and mainstream media is necessary but challenging due to the scale and dynamic nature of modern communication. ...

A concern with international cooperation in psychology has been present since the beginnings of psychology as a science. In this article, the author traces the development of international cooperation from the late 19th century to the present day to document the interesting ways in which the forms of collaboration have always been related to the large social and political contexts of which they...

a Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Hospital Tübingen, Tübingen , b Department of General Internal Medicine and Psychosomatics, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg , c Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Giessen and Marburg , and d Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, ...

In this review, we highlight what G3BP's domain structure initially suggested; that G3BPs are "scaffolding" proteins linking signal transduction to RNA metabolism. Whilst it is most attractive to hypothesise about G3BP's role in signalling to mRNA metabolism, it is not known whether all G3BP functions impinge on their RNA-binding activities, so any theories are naturally subject to this qualifi...

644 CMAJ, June 16, 2015, 187(9) ©2015 8872147 Canada Inc. or its licensors The College of Family Physicians of Canada has moved closer to its ultimate goal of having 45% of medical school graduates embrace its specialty, with 38.5% of graduates selecting family practice as their first choice of discipline in 2015. That percentage is little changed from 2014’s 38.2%, but gets the college within ...

The mental health of physicians in training is a topic of considerable concern. Recent attention to the issue of patient safety has led to examination of the relationship between residents' stress and compromised clinical performance. Few mental health programs dedicated to residents and formally structured to meet their specific needs are reported in the literature. The authors raise the quest...

Properly protecting information is in all our best interests, but it is a complex undertaking. The fact that regulation is often written by non-technologists, introduces additional challenges and obstacles. Moreover, those who design systems that collect, store, and maintain sensitive information have an obligation to design systems holistically within this broader context of regulatory and leg...