DDH Epidemiology Revisited: Do We Need New Strategies?

Ramadan fasting: Do we need more evidence?

Over a billion of Muslims fast worldwide during Ramadan each year. Through this religious custom, fasting contributes to their health as well as their spiritual growth. However, available evidence regarding the health-benefits of Ramadan fasting is scarce and highly contentious. Although Islam exempts patients from fasting, many fast conceivably, and their clinical condition is prone to deterio...

Staff Burnout… Do we need any intervention?

Dear Editor, As you know physical and mental wellness of physicians and nurses, as the main role in the treatment of patients, in conditions such as burnout, compassion fatigue, depression, and poor work-life balance, is one of the top priorities in the U.S.A. National Academy of Medicine  (1-4). Although healthcare team members are generally known as a caregiver to others;  their h...

Do we need new therapeutic strategies for depression?

Depression is a frequent, recurrent and chronic condition with high levels of functional disability (Mueller et al. 1999, Kessler et al. 2003, Posternak 2006.). Depression is also associated with excess allcause mortality (reviewed in: Lépine and Briley 2011). Despite of growing number of different antidepressants, still less than 50% of all patients treated with the currently available antidep...

Editorial: Computational Neuroscience and Modeling of Diseases: Do We Need New Paradigms?

The Asian Nuclear Medicine Board; Why Do We Need It?

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Do we need new autoantibodies in lupus?

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a clinically and serologically complex disease that demonstrates clinical, epidemiological and genetic differences among racial and ethnic groups. Some autoantibodies are useful for diagnosis of the illness. Others are clinically important because of associations with a particular manifestation of SLE. Antibodies to RNA helicase A (anti-RHA) comprise a newl...