BACKGROUND Knowledge of the fetal effects of maternal medication use in pregnancy is often inadequate and current pregnancy pharmacovigilance (PV) surveillance methods have important limitations. Patient self-reporting may be able to mitigate some of these limitations, providing an adequately sized study sample can be recruited. OBJECTIVE To compare the ability and cost-effectiveness of sever...

PURPOSE Social media (SM), a virtual place where people can share, exchange, and communicate their ideas and knowledge, has become the new trend in communication and learning. This study aims to explore Saudi Arabian medical students' usage of SM and to discover the most common resources used in medical education. Furthermore, it aims to illustrate students' belief about the influence of SM on ...

This issue of JIMA is devoted to the proceedings of IMANA/Hofstra Ethics conference held in Long Island, New York, September 17-18, 2010. I believe it covers a lot of information that is useful and interesting. This will be the last printed issue of JIMA. We will continue publishing JIMA online. You can read the articles on jima.imana.org as they are accepted and prepared. If you register on th...

At the end of the last year, we, editorial team, decided to redesign our website to better serve our readers, reviewers and authors. After much hard work, we are excited to officially announce the new and improved Balkan Medical Journal website. You can now reach us at http://balkanmedicaljournal.org/ We thought that it was important to renew the website to reach a wider audience. So, we wanted...

BACKGROUND An increasing number of people visit online health communities to seek health information. In these communities, people share experiences and information with others, often complemented with links to different websites. Understanding how people share websites can help us understand patients' needs in online health communities and improve how peer patients share health information onl...

On a mammogram, breast density (also known as mammographic density) is shown as white and bright regions and is associated with reduced sensitivity in cancer detection and increased breast cancer risk. However, many Australian women are unaware of the significance of breast density as it is not routinely reported or discussed. In order to address this lack of knowledge, Australian breast cancer...

As Nursing Open enters its third year, it is worth recording that this January 2016 issue was published almost a month in advance. Little did we expect this kind of success when I was planning the launch of the journal with Wiley partner Griselda Campbell in a small tea room in a very wet and windy Cork, Ireland during the 2014 INANE conference. As ever, it is much easier to predict the past th...

Social media nowadays influences almost every part of life. Particularly the educational context is characterized by an increased use of social and digital media in teaching and learning scenarios. Although most students are familiar with the use of social media, many students have problems when it comes to integrate social media in the learning processes of educational and professional context...

point of my last postdoctoral position, I felt increasingly uncertain about my future. I loved my research, but what would happen when the contract ended? Would I be able to stay in academia? Did I even want to? One day, bored on my commute, I wrote a sciku inspired by Matt Ridley’s book Nature via Nurture: “Character entwined/locked in sinuous chain or/perhaps blooms from birth?” As I discover...

BACKGROUND Online social networking use has increased rapidly among African American and Latino men who have sex with men (MSM), making it important to understand how these technologies can be used to reach, retain, and maintain individuals in care and promote health wellness. In particular, the Internet is increasingly recognized as a platform for health communication and education. However, l...