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What Is Known on the Subject?: Service user involvement in mental health nursing education is beneficial in terms of attitudinal change to reduce stigma, clinical skill development and enhancing understandings of recovery-oriented practice. Service users as experts by experience have not been embedded within pre-registration nursing programs. Consequently, they remain limited in number, ad hoc and frequently tokenistic. Nurse academics responsible for the design and delivery of pre-registration mental health nursing curricula have a potentially important role in facilitating expert by experien...

Individuals with a genetic intolerance to alcohol who drink infrequently or not at all up to almost a third less likely to develop some cancers, whilst cancer risk is greater in regular drinkers with genetic alcohol intolerance.

How to Do a Gender Analysis: Practical Guidance for the UN Community Format by Phoebe Donnelly Feminist activists have long called for the United Nations community, including member states and UN agencies, to incorporate a “gender perspective” or use a “gender analysis” in their work. In particular, there has been a link between the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda and policies on countering violent extremism (CVE). For example, UN Security Council resolution 2242, the WPS resolution focused on CVE, advocates for a “gender analysis,” “gender perspective,” and “gender-s...

Implementing Improved Analytical Methods To Support Vaccine Quality By Maura C. Kibbey, Ph.D., U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) Advancements in analytical technology can improve testing paradigms in vaccine development, while also supporting existing vaccine manufacturing and quality control. A key impediment to implementing new methods for characterizing and releasing licensed vaccines, however, is submitting updates to regulators across multiple jurisdictions. This impediment and perceived regulatory risk can deter manufacturers from adopting new technologies to ensure quality in older products; non...