Background: To explore the strengths and weaknesses of conventional biomedical research strategies and methods as applied to complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), and to suggest a new research framework for assessing these treatment modalities. Discussion: There appears to be a gap between published studies showing little or no efficacy of CAM, and reports of substantial clinical benefi...

Modified male insects have been used to control populations several times before. Most early attempts were with the release of sterile males created by irradiation. One of the first successes was against the screwworm fly before the second world war in the south-east US. The war disrupted experiments but, by 1952, laboratory and field experiments suggested the approach had promise. A large-scal...

editor’s note geopersia is published biannually by the college of science, university of tehran, iran. the college of science published “journal of science”, which covered all fields of basic science, from 1968 to 2010. it was then decided that the college’s journals should be more specialized, and hence publication of geopersia was launched. geopersia aims to publish peer-reviewed original res...

How does exposure to low-level radiation affect a person’s risk of developing cancer or other health problems? Is there a threshold below which there is no effect at all? Can we really understand the effects of prolonged low-level exposure by applying what we’ve learned from one-time blasts like the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs? Following the reactor fuel meltdowns at Japan’s Fukushima D...

Welcome to volume two of the Journal of Bone Oncology, the first journal devoted to the multidisciplinary management of bone disease in cancer patients. During the past year, the importance of bone oncology in cancer care has continued to increase. This follows the emergence of further clinical data supporting the use of bone targeted treatments in the adjuvant treatment of early breast cancer ...