Pediatric patients’ reasons for visiting dentists in all WHO regions

Reasons for non-vaccination in pediatric patients visiting tertiary care centers in a polio-prone country

BACKGROUND The Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) was initiated by World Health Organization (WHO) in 1974 in order to save children from life threatening, disabling vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs). In Pakistan, this program was launched in 1978 with the main objectives of eradicating polio by 2012, eliminating measles and neonatal tetanus by 2015, and minimizing the incidence of other ...

Challenges to pediatric dentists.

Proteasomes: Machines for All Reasons

Emerging data reveal that besides degrading proteins tagged with ubiquitin, the proteasome plays a more varied and decisive role in cellular regulation than previously imagined. In this issue, Hanna et al. (2007) expand our view of the proteasome by showing that under certain conditions, proteasome composition can be altered to control ubiquitin homeostasis.

A Mouse for All Reasons

Three major mouse knockout programs are underway worldwide, working together to mutate all protein-encoding genes in the mouse using a combination of gene trapping and gene targeting in mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells. Although the current emphasis is on production of this valuable resource, there are significant efforts to facilitate program coordination, to enhance the availability of this re...

Links Between Tourists, Heritage, and Reasons for Visiting Heritage Sites

This paper aims to clarify heritage tourism by identifying and segmenting reasons for visiting heritage sites. In doing so it highlights the point that the links between a site's attributes and the tourists themselves are essential to understanding tourists’ motivations to visit heritage places. The sample was composed of English speaking international tourists leaving Israel through Ben-Gurion...