Children involved in sports should be encouraged to participate in a variety of different activities and develop a wide range of skills. Young athletes who specialize in just one sport may be denied the benefits of varied activity while facing additional physical, physiologic, and psychologic demands from intense training and competition. This statement reviews the potential risks of high-inten...

Karen S. Palmer is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Faculty of Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. Danielle Martin is Vice-President of Medical Affairs and Health System Solutions at Women’s College Hospital and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine and the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evalu...

This Editorial is a continuation of the comments presented in the last issue of Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. In that issue, the importance of developing and stating a study objective was explored. This editorial explores the importance of the Introduction Section of a scientific manuscript. The Introduction Section is usually glossed over when one reviews the instructions for authors sect...

In the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, which started in 2019 and was caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 virus, clinical course of infection observed a wide range from very mild symptoms to death. Although system lungs are mostly affected COVID-19 infection, other organs systems also affected. The most common fever, cough, fatigue, difficulty breathing, anosm...

*Corresponding author: Mohammadreza Noras. Department of Traditional medicine, School of complementary and Persian traditional medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 05136038550 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/3.0), which permi...