On Gout; its History, its Causes, and its Cure

Gout and its comorbidities.

Gout is a chronic disease in which excessively high levels of serum urate (hyperuricemia) result in tissue depositions of sodium urate crystals and intermittent inflammatory attacks. Patients who have gout frequently experience a range of comorbidities, which complicates management and affects long-term prognosis. We review some of the more important of these comorbidities and consider the exte...

Panelphobia and Its Cure

I am moved to reflect on this matter by the recent shower of newspaper cuttings which indicate that the season of conferences has been with ns and that symptoms of panelphobia have manifested themselves in the usual fashion. It is the duty of everyone who is interested in the question of improving the health conditions of his native land to try and check these manifestations, and I make no apol...

the geopolitics of afghanistan after september 11, 2001, and its impact on iranian national security

abstract u.s. attack to afghanistan after 9/11 provided opportunities for us who tried to become the dominant power after collapse of ussr and bipolar world. thinkers like fukuyama believed american liberal democrats thought would be universally accepted without resistances. liberal democracy is the best and final model of governance; in this regard, united state has moral responsibilities for...

Science Communication, A review on Importance, History, and Its Models

The article is an extended version of a talk on the issue given in Half-Day Seminar on the Complications of Scientific Publications held by Iranian Academy of Sciences, on July the ninth of 2019. Apparently, science communication, an old tradition and once very popular according to the literature reviewed, is not well advanced along with the magnificent scientific progress happened during the l...

Jhin-Jhinia and Its Cure