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Tolerating discomfort and engaging authentically – ethical challenges in developing culturally responsive clinical practices with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Australian First Nation peoples’ mental health and wellbeing experiences are holistic and deeply linked to Country, kin and culture. A recently published article, “Understanding and working with different worldviews to co-design cultural security in clinical mental health settings to engage with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander clients”, explains how bringing First Nation worldviews together with non-Indigenous worldviews has opened up conversations and reflections about the ethical guidelines by which many mental health practitioners frame their work practices.…

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International Women’s Day 2020: Influential women in STEM

International Women’s Day 2020 falls on Sunday, 8th March this year. In the run up to this date, each week day we’ll be highlighting one woman whose accomplishments in science, technology, engineering and/or mathematics not only elevated their fields but also took us one step closer to a gender-equal world.…

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Parasitic nematodes simultaneously suppress and benefit from coccidian coinfection in their natural mouse host

The latest Paper of the Month for Parasitology is ‘Parasitic nematodes simultaneously suppress and benefit from coccidian coinfection in their natural mouse host’ by Melanie Clerc, Andy Fenton, Simon A Babayan, Amy B Pedersen Infections with parasitic nematodes are a major threat to global health and affect millions of people across the globe.…

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What emergency medicine can teach emergency managers

When a tsunami hit Japan in 2011 and crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, the American Ambassador called in a team of radiation, health, communications, and nuclear power plant experts to join him in Tokyo to provide Americans visiting or living in Japan with information they needed.…

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Ethics and force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike

Health Professionals Who Participate in Force-feeding Prisoners on Hunger Strike at Guantanamo Bay Should Lose Professional Licenses Force-feeding Violates Medical Ethics and Amounts to Torture   Physicians and other licensed health professionals are force-feeding hunger strikers held prisoner at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay (GTMO), Cuba.…

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Sun Exposure North of the Arctic Circle

The August Nutrition Society Paper of the month is from British Journal of Nutrition  and is entitled ‘Vitamin D in serum is influenced by diet and season in North Greenland:  indicators of dermal 25OHD production north of the Arctic Circle’ No need to worry about vitamin D deficiency if you live in North Greenland.…

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The effectiveness of prebiotics in modifying the gastrointestinal microbiota for the management of digestive disorders

The June Nutrition Society Paper of the month is the Sir David Cuthbertson Medal Lecture published in Proceedings of the Nutrition Society  and is entitled ‘ Mechanisms and effectiveness of prebiotics in modifying the gastrointestinal microbiota for the management of digestive disorders’ The gastrointestinal (GI) microbiota is a complex and metabolically active ecosystem that plays an important role in health and disease.…

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Renaming schizophrenia

The name “Schizophrenia” is the subject of a new Forum in the journal Psychological Medicine. An article written by Bill George and Aadt Klijn, Foreign Affairs co-coordinators for Anoiksis (the Dutch association of and for people with a psychotic vulnerability), has been reflected on by various commentators.…

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Genetics Research is evolving

The new Editor-in-Chief of Genetics Research, Dr Noam Shomron, shares his thoughts on how the journal is undergoing an evolution… In 2013, Genetics Research is entering a new phase of its existence.…

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Why study twins and what is a twin registry?

Find out the Guest Editors’ (Yoon-Mi Hur and Jeffrey M. Craig) response to these questions and more about a recent special issue in Twin Research and Human Genetics titled “Twin registries worldwide: An important resource for scientific research”   Why study twins?

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Barriers to managing diabetes

The Booth et al. study of recently diagnosed patients with diabetes and the health professionals involved in their care highlighted barriers to lifestyle management in six main areas.…

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