Since 1999, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has funded seven centers across the country to provide practical guidance to physicians and other health care professionals about the drugs they prescribe. These Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs) develop, translate and disseminate objective information on drugs to improve practice. The University of Pennsylvania...

Plans by local authorities, towns, national parks and even states in Europe to set up genetically modified free zones to stop the controversial crops being grown in their areas are in deep confusion following new EU guidelines announced last month. Combined with uncertainty over who would be legally liable if genetic contamination takes place and the World Trade Organisation's pending case agai...

Script is a productive figure to inscribe and analyse gender and diversity in design. This paper addresses one risk of the use of script in our desire to design for gender and diversity. We locate our discussion of this risk in two design perspectives, ‘design from nowhere’ and ‘design from somewhere’. With the help of two vignettes we discuss how ‘design from nowhere’ was perceived as a perspe...

conclusions based on previous studies, it can be concluded that religious and behavioral aspects can be used as a factor in the improvement of human mental health. background religion and health are two very important aspects of human societies. in recent years, psychologists have viewed religion as an extraordinary force which gives spiritual power to humans and protects them against difficult...

No research has examined the challenges faced by lesbian women seeking to adopt from the perspective of lesbian couples themselves. The current qualitative study utilized data from 70 women (from 35 same-sex couples) who were in the process of adopting to explore how lesbian women experience and navigate the challenges they encounter during this critical life transition. Ecological, minority st...

If you expect a nobel prize winner being a crank who can think of nothing but his subject, then read Roald Hoffmann's The Same and Not the Same and test your hypothesis. This book is about chemistry, to be sure – but in the broadest scope including sociology, psychology , ethics and philosophy of chemistry. 51 nice little chapters grouped in ten parts reflect on chemistry from different aspects...