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Can recent Berkeley findings help us to find a solution to the paradox of cancer incidence in high natural background radiation areas of Ramsar, Iran?

According to the report published by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) in 2000, Ramsar city in northern Iran, has some inhabited areas with the highest known natural background radiation levels in the world (1). The annual radiation absorbed dose in high background radiation areas (HBRAs) of Ramsar is extraordinary high, reaching 260 mSv that i...

Help us find and honour the stars of South Asian healthcare.

The BMJ Awards are back in the Indian subcontinent for 2015, rebranded as the BMJ Awards South Asia. This year nominations are invited from eight countries—Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. And there are new categories, including awards dedicated to the specialties of cardiology, pulmonology, and diabetes; one for an outstanding postgraduate thesis; a...

A quest to find cures for paediatric cancers

Simplifying the law - can ICT help us?

Usability is a well-known term in information science. According to the International Usability Standard, usability is related to: “The effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction with which specified users achieve specified goals in particular environments”. In other words: information is useful if it is delivered to the right person in the right location at the right time in the right amount a...

Experts confident of Congressional funding for US Cures Act.

Just 5 weeks before his presidency ended, Barack Obama signed the 21st Century Cures Act, a law that will sustain several of his signature biomedical research initiatives, streamline the US drug and medical device approval process, improve the nation’s mental health-care system, and combat the country’s opioid misuse epidemic. The legislation won nearly unanimous approval in both houses of Cong...