EMPH has Oomph: Impact Factor Approved
Approval of an impact factor has just been announced for Evolution Medicine and Public Heath, the Open Access journal published by the Oxford University Press for the International Society for Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health. This is a major accomplishment for...
Evolutionary Medicine at the National Association of Biology Teachers
The National Association of Biology Teachers is the preeminent organization of high school and college biology teachers from throughout the country. The annual conference draws the most highly motivated and passionate teachers. It features hundreds of workshops but...
EPSIG Meeting March 22
The 3rd International Symposium of the Royal College of Psychiatrists Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group (EPSIG) is now open for booking. The very interesting program is available...
Tenure track position at ASU
The Center for Evolution & Medicine (CEM) and the School of Life Sciences (SOLS) at Arizona State University (ASU) invite applications for a full time open-rank, tenured or tenure-track faculty position. Rank and tenure status will be commensurate with experience....
Why NIH needs evolution expertise–The amyloid beta case study
Sharon Begley has written a lovely article on Tanzi and Moir's research on the antimicrobial properties of amyloid beta and the outrageous difficulty they have had getting NIH to fund their work. They noted that study after study has found no benefit from treatments...
How EvMed Misled Me—The ASA saga
The history of medicine is replete with examples of the disasters that result when clinical practice is guided by theory alone. For instance, in the early 20th century sudden infant death was attributed to suffocation caused by an enlarged thymus.1 Thousands of...
Submissions invited for a special issue of JERPH
Guest editors Nicole Bender and Kaspar Straub invite submissions for a special issue of Environmental Research and Public Health on "Evolutionary Medicine: Environmental Health Issues" The deadline is September, 2019. Full details...