Sir, I was recently on call for nephrology, and something happened. I was rung by a first year junior doctor at 1 am, saying that a patient's 'MEWS score was 6'. The patient had had a renal transplant that day. A score of 6 is very high. It should trigger a rapid senior review, and possible intensive care re-ferral. Modified early warning score (MEWS) is an electronic early warning score based ...

Hepatitis B infection is one of the major health problems throughout the world with the annual infection rate of 350 million cases.(1), According to the WHO data, 75% of this rate is related to the Asian countries.(2), The prevalence of this infection varies among different countries from 10-20% for the Far East (including China and Hong Kong)(3) to 3-5% for the middle-east countries (including...

1 Physiatrist, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2 Department of Hematology and Oncology AND Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3 Assistant Professor, Department of surgery AND Aliebneabitaleb Hospital, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran 4 Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation...

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