“For Whom the Bell Tolls”: Blockade of Toll-Like Receptors May Regulate Seizure Occurrence

For whom the bell tolls?

For whom the desert bell tolls: heat stroke or stroke

       Heat stroke is the most complicated and dangerous amongst heat injuries that can lead to irreversible injury and even death with itself or with creating predisposibility to different diseases. The following case report depicts a patient who presented primarily with impairment of consciousness after walking 45 km in the summer heat to cross the Syria-Turkey border and la...

Festschrift editorial--for whom the bell tolls.

A fter four and a half wonderful and exciting years at the helm of the Indigo Journal it is time to pass the baton to our new team of Editors – Drs. Abel Ickowicz and Russell Schachar. I am extremely confident that the new editors will help grow the Journal and launch it into the new stratosphere of high quality research and academic debate. They are supported by a dedicated team of professiona...

2015, big data in healthcare: for whom the bell tolls?

The health care sector generates bountiful data around the clock, which can paradoxically complicate our quest for information, knowledge, and ‘wisdom’ [1]. It may be prudent that medical end-users consider seriously a fundamental change that would allow us to gain full value from the ‘big data’ that the health care section is generating [2]. Proponents of the big data revolution suggest that t...

Does migraine produce facial palsy? For whom the Bell tolls.

Bell palsy (also known as Bell’s palsy) is an acute, ipsilateral, facial nerve paralysis of unknown etiology that results in weakness of the platysma and muscles of facial expression. Bell palsy affects 11 to 40 persons per 100,000 each year, with peak incidence between the ages of 15 and 50 years and both sexes are affected equally. Pregnant women, persons with diabetes, the elderly, and patie...