Table of Contents

EDITORIAL

Medicine seen from the holistic point of view
Søren Ventegodt

REVIEW ARTICLES

Has the time come for mental health services to give up control?
Said Shahtahmasebi and Lindie Smith

The effect of human resource practices on employee performance in hospitals:A systematic review
Philipos Petros

Pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy or mind-body medicine for mental diseases? A comparative review of the literature on the benefits and risks of psychopharmacological, psychotherapeutic and CAM treatments of psychiatric disorders
Søren Ventegodt

An existential theory of stress
Søren Ventegodt and Gudrun Wiedemann

What causes disease and death? Solving the problem of confounding in a large birth cohort
Sarah Jensen, Søren Ventegodt, and Joav Merrick

State-of-life theory
Sarah Jensen and Søren Ventegodt

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Sodium chloride at ultra high dilution counters salt effect on germination and early seedling growth in cowpea Vigna unguiculata (L) Walp
Soma Sukul, Sandhimita Mondal, and Nirmal C Sukul

Evaluation of a yoga group for depressive in- and outpatients
Nicole Drogla, Ursula Berninger, and Rebecca Löbmann

Familiarity of ten ethnic spices and their association with diseases/illnesses among registered dietitians and dietetic students
Nicolle Fernandes, Jo Carol Chezem, and Jay Kandiah

Comparative analysis of cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness of all types of evidence-based medicine for all clinical conditions
Søren Ventegodt