Being open to basics

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Infantile colic: from basics to treatment

Infantile colic is a common condition among infants in which inability of caregivers to console their infants can lead to shaken baby syndrome, child abuse, depression and etc. Therefore it can lay a great economic burden in healthcare and social welfare systems. Even though it is highly prevalent, little agreement has been reached on the definition, pathogenesis or the optimal management strat...

Getting Back to Basics

Advances in understanding basic developmental and physiological processes often have direct relevance to human disease. They provide insights into pathogenic mechanisms and reveal new pathways that can be exploited in diagnosis and the development of therapeutics.

Quintessence: back to basics

Quintessence is often invoked to explain the universe acceleration suggested by the type Ia supernovae observations. The aim of this letter is to demonstrate that the scalar potential necessary for quintessence is strongly constrained by the field and conservation equations. As an application, we show that all the potentials used up to now in the literature do not satisfy this constraint and so...

Ascites - From Basics to Bedside

The term ascites denotes the pathological accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity. Healthy men have little or no fluid in the peritoneal cavity but women normally may have up to 20ml depending on the phase of menstrual cycle. Causes of ascites may be classified into two pathophysiologic categories: That associated with the normal peritoneum and that which occur due to a diseased peritone...