The life of a junior scientist—usually as a PhD student or postdoctoral researcher—is rarely easy. The job often involves relocating to another city or even another country, which can be difficult and can disrupt personal relationships. Long working hours, often extending into evenings or weekends, inevitably clash with the scientist’s private life. Crucial experiments or research projects migh...

Introduction Every day we face a multitude of risks. Some we have experienced before; some we have not. Some we have contemplated; others have never crossed our mind. In this essay, we define four types of risk based on these two dimensions: whether or not they have occurred and whether or not we have contemplated them. These four classes of risks are shown in Figure 1. Individual and societal ...

Methods We did retrospective assessment of HIV+ patients who received DRV at our institution, prescribed as part of a salvage regimen since 2006. Liver, metabolic and renal profile were assessed at baseline, after 1 month and every 3 months. 52 HIV1+ patients have been enrolled; mean age was 48 (IQR 44-54) years, male 82%, IDUs 29%, MSM 37%, heterosexuals 33%; 15 patients were HCV or HBV co-inf...

patients and methods the study sample included 50 patients with schizophrenia in tuba rehabilitation center in ardabil selected by available sampling method. healthy group participants were selected through cloning by age, gender and marital status of the patient group. the data were collected by the questionnaire of holmes-rahe scale and cohen et al. data were analyzed by multivariate anova (m...