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Soc Stud Sci
January 2025
Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
There is growing concern around the world about declining trust in the scientific enterprise. Some STS scholars argue that the solution is to move to a system of 'virtual diversity' where scientists are responsible for translating public concerns into their work. This commentary argues that this containment approach will have the opposite effect.
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January 2025
Department of Global Health Hans Rosling Center, University of Washington, 3980 15th Ave NE, Seattle, Seattle, WA, 98105, USA.
Background: The Covid pandemic and its aftermath have triggered new alarm and social unrest across the Global South over the deepening international debt crisis that now threatens to derail Universal Health Coverage (UHC), other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), future pandemic preparedness, and global warming mitigation. The recent Globalization and Health article by Alex Kentikelenis and Thomas Stubbs (May 2024), "Social protection and the International Monetary Fund: promise versus performance", offers a meticulously quantified rendering of the social costs imposed by the crisis and takes aim at IMF solutions. They advocate for a rejection of IMF austerity programs and offer a valuable prescription for change through the International Labor Organization's "Universal Social Protection" concept.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnn Behav Med
December 2024
Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, United States.
Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) agonist medications are receiving high levels of attention because of their dramatic efficacy in causing weight loss. This commentary discusses several ways that those in behavioral medicine and health psychology might think about these medications-whether they should be fully in support of them or whether they pose a risk. The positive aspects of GLP-1s include their great promise in improving health independent of weight loss and the perspective that their efficacy frees individuals from the difficulties of behavioral weight maintenance and the associated stigma of "failing" to lose weight.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Child Psychol Psychiatry
December 2024
Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
Contemporary research on developing theory of mind emphasizes its cognitive and neurobiological foundations, but studies of its relational origins have potential for opening new terrain in this expansive literature. The study by Kochanska and colleagues shows this in several ways. First, it offers a model for constructing theoretically guided causal models built on longitudinal research enlisting multiple predictors of developing theory of mind that can be examined in concert.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWorld J Gastroenterol
November 2024
Department of Anorectal, Xiyuan Hospital, Chinese Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100091, China.
Colorectal cancer is a malignant tumor with the third and second highest incidence and mortality rates worldwide, and its mortality rate is increasing annually. Colorectal cancer evolves gradually over a long period of time. The evolving process from colorectal adenoma to colorectal cancer takes approximately 10-15 years, providing a sufficiently long "window period" for early screening and diagnosis of colorectal cancer.
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