As the article in this issue by Latta and colleagues argues, the decision to treat very old elders for diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) should ideally be made following a comprehensive functional assessment (CFA). However, because of the time a CFA will take on a busy day, the physician usually dreads the visit at which one is to be performed—despite the fact that a better clinical decisio...

background: interleukin-17 (il-17), as a potent proinflammatory cytokine, has a critical role in post liver transplant outcomes. however, there is not much information about the effects of il-17 cytokine on acute liver rejection. objective: to evaluate the role of il-17 in post-liver transplant acute rejection. methods: ninety seven adult liver transplant patients who enrolled in this cross sec...

This paper focuses on the main problems that authors of rejected papers have had in their submissions to Pediatric Pulmonology over the past 5 years or so. It is intended as a teaching tool for residents, fellows, allied health personnel, practicing physicians and even some academic physicians who need a refresher on what goes wrong and how they may avoid rejection of their labor. The approach ...

BACKGROUND Introduction to sexual education in schools was suggested by the Malaysian government as one of the effort taken in the aim to reduce the sexual-related social problems among Malaysian teenagers nowadays. This study was proposed in the aim to determine the rate of acceptance among adolescents on the implementation of sexual education in schools. METHODS This study was conducted usi...

As an Associate Editor, I handle a considerable number of manuscripts submitted to Stress and Health for consideration for publication. Many of these articles are rejected from the journal. Sometimes manuscripts are rejected because they are deemed not to make a sufficiently original contribution to the field or contain ‘fatal flaws’. Often there is very little that can be done in such cases, o...