This month marks the 60th anniversary of the College and the 20th anniversary of the Research and Education Foundation (REF). To commemorate this anniversary, the College has undertaken several initiatives to inform members about its history (eg, a history book and a family medicine heritage website are in development). In recent months Canadian Family Physician has also shared stories about th...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is the prototype of a large and heterogeneous group of pulmonary disorders, mainly chronic and progressive, usually known as interstitial lung disease (ILD). Over the last few decades, IPF has been increasingly recognized as a major unmet medical need in respiratory medicine and has become the focus of intense research activity. This is due to the fact that I...

Given the emerging interest among researchers, practitioners, and policymakers in youth participation, it is important to examine and assess carefully the promise and challenges of youth engagement.

This is the final issue of Global Spine Journal for 2016. As the year draws to a close, we would like to update our readers, authors, and reviewers with the changes that will be made next year. This issue is also our final issue that we publish with Thieme Publishers. On behalf of the entire Editorial Board,wewould like to thank Thieme for their past services to GSJ and EBSJ over the last 5 yea...

Breaches of ethics are prevalent in biomedical publishing. Kapoor and colleagues identify several of the practical and ethics dilemmas that they have encountered in editing The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Biomedical publishing ethics is continually evolving, with discrepant practice among different publications. Publication ethics apply to authors, editors, peer r...

Dr. Neilson (Ph.D. Queen’s University, Marketing and MIS) is an Assistant Professor at the Sprott School of Business. She taught Information Systems courses in her previous appointment at the University of Guelph, and currently teaches in the Marketing area at the Sprott School. Her research focuses on social and cultural influences on consumption, consumer culture theory, morality in marketpla...

Medical history is often overlooked as advances keep moving forward. Seldom it that in medicine are truly new, unique ideas, but rather built on ideas have been considered before. Even our latest developments will become or forgotten science and advance. This of intermittent mandatory ventilation (IMV) a two-part article which the first part attempts to show concepts apparatus involve now commo...