Did Director Steven Soderbergh Get The Chemistry Right…Again?
A chemical look at The Informant!.
A chemical look at The Informant!.
An excerpt from Bracing For Armageddon?
HIV/AIDS expert Alan Whiteside on the recent HIV vaccine trails in Thailand.
Phil Sefton, ELS, weighs in on the difference between “nauseating” and “nauseous”.
Was Michael Jackson’s doctor responsible?
An excerpt from Down to the Wire.
How do goals drive behavior?
An excerpt from Hope in the Age of Anxiety, looking at the relationship between meaning and health.
Today, Brenda Gregoline discusses the final four points on her ‘top ten list’ of most frequent mistakes authors make when submitting manuscripts – including duplicate submissions, failing to protect patient identity, not ‘matching-up data’ and forgetting to read the instructions for authors!
It’s impossible to expect authors to absorb all of the 1000-page ‘AMA Manual of Style’; they’re just trying to get published, and it’s our job to help them. Today, we discuss three of the top-ten most frequent mistakes, including punctuation and style, ‘errors of grandiosity’ and wacky references.
Publishing a new edition of a style manual, particularly a lengthy, detailed manual that covers a ridiculous amount of technical material (Hello, ‘AMA Manual of Style’!), is a gruelling process. In our case, it involved ten people meeting for at least an hour every week for more than a year.
An excerpt from Critical Thinking for Helping Professionals.
An introductory excerpt from Critical Thinking for Helping Professionals.
An excerpt from Paranoia: The 21st-century Fear.
An excerpt from The Woman Who Decided to Die: Challenges and Choices at the Edges of Medicine.
The authors of A Parent’s Guide to Raising Grieving Children: Rebuilding Your Family after the Death of a Loved One share the answers to some frequently asked questions.