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A long-awaited report on overprescribing from the Department of Health and Social Care was published last month.1 The term ‘overprescribing’ is an interesting one that will be relatively unfamiliar to many readers, perhaps too readily conflated with ‘polypharmacy’. It's more nuanced than that, though – it's about prescribing when there are alternatives available, medication inappropriate for in...

Research into science identity, stereotype threat, and possible selves suggests a lack of diverse representations of scientists could impede traditionally underserved students from persisting and succeeding in science. We evaluated a series of metacognitive homework assignments ("Scientist Spotlights") that featured counterstereotypical examples of scientists in an introductory biology class at...

© 1999 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors Technology: Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor antagonists of platelets Use: The activation of platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptors results in rapid thrombosis through specific binding of its ligand, fibrinogen. The use of the Fab fragment of the mouse/human chimeric monoclonal antibody 7E3, now known as the pharmaceutical abciximab (ReoPro),...