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The field of Medicine, in general, and the specialty of Family Medicine in particular, share a lot of principles and practices with the field of Human Rights. Highlighting the interconnectedness of the two – especially for learners -- has been a passion of mine for decades through clinical practice, teaching, writing, advocacy, and research. A big 'Thank you' to Dr. Bill Ventres for providing one more venue for me to share my views via the essay: “Why family physicians should care about human rights”, as part of a wonderful collection of essays in BMJ Family Medicine and Community Health “Storylines of Family Medicine”. #HumanRights #Medicine #MedEd Check out other essays by, Shailendra Prasad Edgar Figueroa MD MPH Francis Chu David Blane Robert Ferrer Garrett Kneese and others.

https://lnkd.in/gPcxhdqk This is an interesting article since, given the times we are in with what feels like multiple crisis on top of hard economic circumstances, people are undoubtedly much more stressed. I think we just tend to assume the main ways that companion animals are affected is the question of mainly feeding, and healthcare, but it can even affect their mental health as well. I believe learning more about animal mental health could be useful for working in the veterinary field. Could the same also be true of cats, even if they aren’t canids? #DogMentalHealth #CanineCare

Want to know about the efficacy of exercise interventions on prevention of sport-related concussion and related outcomes? Read our SR&MA published in BJSM: https://lnkd.in/eH6w8-5v Brilliant work by PhD student Branimir Ivanic 🤩, and his first paper👏!

This article has been helpful in dealing with life’s ups and downs with #equanimity.

New #ZooResearch now out in the new issue of the Journal of Zoo Aquarium Research, with articles on environmental enrichment, animal behaviour, visitor effects, human-animal interactions and more! Check it out (open access): https://lnkd.in/gfKyNxmT

This is worth reading.

"Wednesday 24th April is World Day for Laboratory Animals, originally started in the 1979 to commemorate the lives of laboratory animals. We have produced a short PowerPoint Presentation which contains a short video, a quiz and some extension activity ideas to help students learn about the use of animals in research today and the alternative research methods that are helping to replace animals. This resource is aimed at students aged 11-16 (Key stages 3&4)" https://lnkd.in/gPCtqxWt

CHECK OUT THIS FUN ARTICLE ABOUT "THE BUSINESS OF UFOLOGY" FROM THIS WEEK'S ISSUE OF THE LOS ANGELES BUSINESS JOURNAL. DIRECT LINK TO ARTICLE IS HERE:  https://lnkd.in/g5YguM5Z

Scripture is primarily intended for a listening, rather than a reading, audience. Wordplay, therefore, especially if witty and suggestive, kept the audience attentive. In this case, it is a double-entendre, “an idiom or other figure of speech that may be understood in two ways. The first is straightforward and innocuous, whereas the second is usually risqué.” https://lnkd.in/gBwVCPYC

Maintaining the streak of our Case Analysis Series, we found a snap clicked by a monkey. This made us wonder that even if it’s not established that humans are descended from monkeys, there exists some incident which draw our attention to the human like intellect of them. But does this mean that we should grant them rights over intellectual properties created by them? The same question has been answered in a 2018 US Case - Naruto, Through People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) v/s David John Slater .The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stated that animals do not have constitutional or statutory standing. With regards to statutory standing, the Court also mentioned that animals do not have any cognizable interests under the said laws. Therefore, animals through the above mentioned case,were restrained from getting their artistic creations protected, unless Congress decides otherwise. Below is the link to the whole judgement: https://lnkd.in/deptPDwg Below is the link to the whole case analysis: https://lnkd.in/d4s9D_7q