McKee's laptop is always running while he travels, and he is known for his “legendary ability to write influential and original articles at lightning speed”, says Andy Haines, Professor of Public Health and Primary Care at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), where McKee is also based. As Professor of European Public Health, McKee is bold and outspoken: he issues unapolog...

Richard Thomson has research interests in quality in health care and health services research. He previously headed the Northern Regional Health Authority's multidisciplinary quality directorate with responsibility for facilitating audit and quality assurance activities across the region. He has contributed to several national groups concerned with influencing policy on audit, including that at...

A 77-year-old Iranian man was visited at the Dermatology Department of Loghman-e Hakim Hospital affiliated with Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences on June 2012 with bilateral, symmetric, raised, violaceous and painless plaques on the nose (both ala nasi), from one year ago. The lesions were small at first and then grew gradually larger in size. Systemic symptoms such as fever, weigh...

We were greatly saddened to hear the news of Professor Fereydoun Malekzadeh's death at age of 79 in September 9, 2012. Professor Malekzadeh was a distinguished and highly respected Iranian Microbiologist and a member of the editorial board of the Iranian Biomedical Journal since October 1997. He was born in 1933 in city of Tabriz in Province of Azarbaijan, Iran. After graduated from high school...

Igor Dawid is Chief of the Laboratory of Molecular Genetics at the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, in Bethesda, Maryland. He studied chemistry in Vienna, Austria, and after postdoctoral work in biochemistry at MIT he joined the Department of Embryology of the Carnegie Institution at Baltimore, where he started his work in developmental b...

case a 13-year-old boy presented to the ski clinic following a fall and a possible twisting of his right knee. he was not able to bear any weight on his right leg and was experiencing pain in the medial aspect of his right knee. his past medical and surgical histories were unremarkable and he was otherwise in good health. physical examination revealed no ecchymosis or effusion. he had moderate ...