Harvey Fineberg NEJM article on how to fix the US health care system

As the Supreme Court prepare to consider the Affordable  Care Act, the New England Journal has published a thoughtful commentary by Harvey Fineberg on on what is needed to fix the US health care system.  He is President of the Institute of Medicine, and Chair of an...

Can an evolutionary perspective increase satisfaction with the DSM?

Towards a genuinely medical model for psychiatric nosology Randolph M Nesse and Dan J Stein in  BMC Medicine 2012, 10:5 doi:10.1186/1741-7015-10-5 Available open access at    http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/10/5/abstract Abstract Psychiatric nosology is widely...

Fast somatic evolution creates heterogeneity in metastatic tumors

Intratumor Heterogeneity and Branched Evolution Revealed by Multiregion Sequencing By Marco Gerlinger, et al.in   New Engl J Med 2012; 366:883-892March 8, 2012 (Not open access)   Abstract: Large-scale sequencing analyses of solid cancers have identified...

Evolutionary Medicine Month at UCLA

February 2012 was Evolutionary Medicine Month at UCLA, organized by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D., Director of Imaging in the Division of Cardiology, and Daniel Blumstein, PhD, Chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.  A report is below....

Evolutionary Applications converts to Open Access

In its five years of publication, Evolutionary Applications has rapidly established itself as a top tier journal.  The journal publishes papers that use evolutionary concepts and methods to address questions of applied importance. Evolutionary Applications recognizes...