[Purpose] We report the case of a breast cancer patient with superficial thrombophlebitis treated with low-level laser therapy. [Case] The patient was a 66-year-old women who developed superficial thrombophlebitis in the left upper limb after chemotherapy. She was administered 6 sessions of low-level laser therapy. [Result] Her pain score decreased by 8 points. Her scores on the Patient and Obs...

many who have been studying artistic products and the creative impulse that no glib formula can be stated on the basis of a superficial examination, even though of hundreds of free drawings. Joanna Field gives an answer to those who are constantly criticizing psychoanalysis for lack of integrative functions or any philosophic approach to life. She has for the first time, as far as I know, put i...

Fateme Derakhshan-Panah was born in Hamedan (Iran) in 1987. She received her B.S. in Pure Chemistry (2009) and M.S. in Organic Chemistry (2011) from Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran. She is currently working towards her Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor M. A. Zolfigol. Her research interest is organic methodology especially the application of solid acids and ionic liquids in organic synthesis.

H enry is an energetic 6-year-old boy wiUi fragile X syndrome (FXS). Physically he does not appear different from other children his age, though with a long face and fairly large eai s. Henry enjoys giving hugs and singing, but when he meets new people he becomes very quiet and avoids eye contact. Transitions are stressful for Henry, so his teachers pi ovide him witli a set schedule for each da...

maryam mashhadinezhad was born in rasht, guilan, i. r. iran. she received her b. sc in chemistry in 2009 from the university of guilan and her m.sc. in organic chemistry in 2011 from the same university. she is studying under the supervision of dr. farhad shirini for her ph. d. her research interests include the use of heterogeneous catalysts in organic reactions.

BACKGROUND Severe liver dysfunction caused by acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) is quite rare. The purpose is to describe a patient with severe liver dysfunction due to excessive intake of ASA in a suicide attempt, who was successfully treated with living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). DESCRIPTION OF CASE We report a 20-year-old woman who took 66 g of ASA in a suicide attempt. She was admitted ...

On June 16, 2011, leaders of many of our greatest health care membership organizations were assembled inWashington, DC, for the Partnership for Patients kickoff meeting. What was different was that a pleasant woman at the back of the room was quietly brushing strokes onto a beautiful painting that evolved while speakers delivered their messages. No one realized she was a focal point of the meet...

Fateme Derakhshan-Panah was born in Hamedan (Iran) in 1987. She received her B.S. in Pure Chemistry (2009) and M.S. in Organic Chemistry (2011) from Bu-Ali Sina University, Iran. She is currently working towards her Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor M. A. Zolfigol. Her research interest is organic methodology especially the application of solid acids and ionic liquids in organic synthesis.

Terry L. Erwin is Curator of Coleoptera at the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, in Washington, D.C. and editor-in-chief of ZooKeys. He generated significant controversy in 1982—which continues to this day—when he published an estimate of 30 million species on Earth, which was substantially more than the nearly one million described species. He was born 1 December 194...