Dead Letter Office

Investigation of Lethal Poisonings among Dead Bodies Referred to Regional Office of Iranian Legal Medicine Organization in Shiraz

Background:Death due to acute poisoning is of medical, legal and social significance. This study was designed to investigate lethal poisonings among dead bodies referred to a regional office of Iranian Legal Medicine Organization (ILMO). Methods:This was a retrospective descriptive-analytical study on dead bodies referred to Fars province regional office of ILMO in Shiraz, Iran, during April 20...

Dead letter or living document? Ten years of the Code of Conduct for disaster relief.

This paper examines the present value of the Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Disaster Relief, in view of discussions on neutrality and the Western bias of the humanitarian aid system, and assesses how it can retain its relevance in future. The Code of Conduct was launched just after the Rwanda genocide of Apr...

In-Office Dispersion and Exposure to Contaminants Originating from an Unfolded Letter

Reply to letter regarding in-office cup biopsies for pharyngolaryngeal tumors.

To the Editor: We have welcomed the letter to your prestigious journal by Drs. Singh and Kumar. In relation to this, we would like to clarify some points. We feel that Dr. Singh thinks that our article underestimates the value of direct laryngoscopy with biopsy. We want to clarify that this is not so. The proof is the final comment of our article in which we remember that this is the gold stand...

How Dead are Dead Links ?

Research papers usually contain a significant number of links to other resources. For the most part, they reference other printed research papers, but there are also a non-trivial number of links to resources on the World Wide Web. Unlike printed research papers, references to WWW resources may become invalid after time. The server containing the page may be taken offline, be temporarily unavai...