T he circumpolar health community lost a much respected and loved friend, colleague and mentor on 17 June, 2014. Dr. Éric Dewailly, aged 59, a professor at Laval University in Québec, Canada, died in a tragic rockslide on the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean, while holidaying with his family. Eric was well known to many researchers across the Arctic. He was a superb pioneering scientist wh...

Educational differences in Health Expectancy (HE) among residents older than 24 years of age in Madrid and Barcelona are evaluated. Death records were linked to the 1991 Population Census and self-perceived health from the National Health Interview Survey was used. Differences between the higher and the lower educational groups in HE at 25 years were: 7.5 years in men and 5.58 years in women in...

Drug-drug interaction and herb-drug interaction have been frequently reported when patients take propofol in combination with other important clinical drugs or herbs. Intestinal bacteria-catalyzed biotransformation process might significantly change the properties of compounds, such as the efficiency, toxicity, and the pharmacokinetic behaviours. The present study aims to investigate whether th...

Rodney Ehrlich trained in economics at UCT and Oxford before switching to Medicine which he completed at UCT in 1981. He subsequently worked for the National Centre for Occupational Health in Johannesburg where his interest in lung disease in miners was kindled. After training in occupational medicine and epidemiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, he qualified as a speciali...

the celebrated poem of ahmad hatif of isfahn, known in persian as the hatef’s tarjiband is studied in the present paper from a historical point of view to reveal the status of this poet in persian poetry, as well as its mystical content. first a short history of tarjiband as a poetic form is revised, then the sixteen poets who have written a mystical tarjiband are presented. all of these tarj...