Retraining the Elephants in the Room.

The Elephants in the Room: Sex, HIV, and LGBT Populations in MENA. Intersectionality in Lebanon; Comment on “Improving the Quality and Quantity of HIV Data in the Middle East and North Africa: Key Challenges and Ways Forward”

In response to this insightful editorial, we wish to provide commentary that seeks to highlight recent successes and illuminate the often unspoken hurdles at the intersections of culture, politics, and taboo. We focus on sexual transmission and draw examples from Lebanon, where the pursuit of data in quality and quantity is teaching us lessons about the way forward and where we are experiencing...

Knowledge and Attitude of Operating Room Personnel on Standards of Using Electrosurgery in Mazandaran University of Medical Science

Background: Safety is one of the most important dimensions of care that is provided by surgical personnel. The most commonly used tools in the operating room are electrosurgical devices that can be a threat to patient safety. The purpose of this study was to determine the level of knowledge and attitude of the operating room personnel in the use of electrosurgery standards in educational and he...

Laboratory characteristics of poxviruses isolated from captive elephants in Germany

Stem cell research: elephants in the room.

The degree to which these elephants are disruptive to the steady advancement of the adult stem cell field will become clear with time. In some ways they enliven the discourse, but in many ways they interfere with efficient progress. Naming these elephants is a first step toward dealing with them. If we remain aware of these issues when evaluating new research, we are less likely to make careles...

Reducing the academic burnout of students with learning disabilities through attributional retraining, emotional regulation, and cognitive-social problem solving

objective: The aim of this research was to investigate and compare the effectiveness of attributional retraining program, emotion regulation and cognitive-social problem solving on reduction of academic burnout in students with early learning disabilities in Tehran. Method: This was a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest,and follow up. The participants consisted of 40 students with le...