N-acetyl cysteine in the treatment of alcohol use disorder in patients with liver disease: Rationale for further research.

Introduction: Alcoholic liver disease (ALD) is the leading cause of alcohol-related death and one of the most common forms of liver disease. Abstinence from alcohol is crucial to reducing morbidity and mortality associated with the disease. However, there are few pharmacotherapies for alcohol use disorder suitable for those with significant liver disease.

General Practitioners' experiences of asthma management in culturally and linguistically diverse populations.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore General Practitioners' experiences and perspectives about asthma management of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) people with asthma, particularly with reference to Arabic-speaking patients with low English proficiency (LEP).

Methods: Semi-structured interviews guided by an interview protocol were conducted with general practitioners who deal with CALD patients with asthma. Participants were recruited from medical practices in Melbourne, Australia.

Physical Health Risk Behaviours in Young People with Mental Illness.

Comorbid physical health conditions, commonly associated with mental illness, contribute to increased morbidity and reduced life expectancy. The trajectory to poorer health begins with the onset of mental illness. For young people with mental illness, health risk behaviours and poor physical health can progress to adulthood with long-term detrimental impacts.

Ostracizing for a Reason: A Novel Source Paradigm for Examining the Nature and Consequences of Motivated Ostracism.

Ostracism, a complex social phenomenon, involves both targets (ostracized individuals) and sources (ostracizers). The current experiment redressed a gap in the ostracism literature by devising a novel, three-phase paradigm to investigate motivated ostracizing. In the current study, 83 females were assigned to one of four conditions during a Cyberball game: motivated sources chose to ostracize an obnoxious fellow player, induced sources ostracized a fellow player at the behest of the experimenter, targets were ostracized, and included participants received the ball proportionately.

The big picture in addressing vaccine hesitancy.

Public acceptance of vaccination has never been a given. Today there is a set of societal circumstances that may contribute to a growing parental hesitancy about vaccination. These include: increasingly 'crowded' vaccination schedules; lower prevalence of vaccine-preventable diseases; greater access to, and more rapid dissemination of, vaccine-critical messages via digital networks; hyper-vigilance of parents in relation to children and risk; and an increasingly consumerist orientation to healthcare.

Filling-in the gaps in models of completion.

Kogo and Wagemans' appropriately link completion phenomena to figure-ground computations. I argue that this link can be strengthened by considering the ecological conditions that give rise to completion phenomena. However, despite their polemics, the model that they offer can be viewed as an elaboration of the "borderline completion plus filling-in" model they eschew.

Diagnosis of silent pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma.

Pheochromocytomas or functioning paragangliomas can present in a dramatic manner with headache, palpitations and sometimes shock, but many occur with few symptoms despite at times markedly elevated catecholamine levels. Hypertension is not invariable, and may be paroxysmal. Increased diligence in the diagnosis of presymptomatic pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma is warranted from autopsy studies, suggesting that many of these tumors may be fatal at first presentation.

Older people living with HIV in Uganda: understanding their experience and needs.

Older adults ageing with HIV in Africa have been largely neglected, despite the distinctive healthcare needs of this population. This article examines the medical care experiences of older Ugandans living with HIV. Data were collected from 40 HIV-positive adults, aged 50 years or older, attending two clinics in Uganda.