Implementing Portfolios in Teacher Training:Why we use them and why we should use them

Predicted values: how should we use them?

Rehabilitation Services: Why should we use Tele-rehabilitation in IRAN? (Necessity and Application)

People living in rural areas far from health care centers are more likely to require health care services due to their long distances services and poverty(1). Tele-rehabilitation is considered as one of the rapidly emerging and growing areas of telemedicine and a precious model for providing clinical services like assessment, treatment and follows up as well as reducing the length of time for h...

Controversies of surviving sepsis campaign bundles: should we use them?

Sepsis accounts for a huge number of deaths in intensive care units all over the world. In 2002, Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) was launched, targeting a mortality reduction of 25% in 5 years. Treatment guidelines were developed, published in 2004 and revised in 2007. An educational program was initiated based on bundles in which 11 of those guidelines were put together to facilitate their ass...

Clinical scores in acute coronary syndrome: When and why should we use them?

Diagnostic labels can be quite opaque regarding prognosis. Under the umbrella of the same medical term, for example non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS), we bring together patients with a similar pathophysiological condition, but dramatically different probabilities of dying. These prognostic differences influence the aggressiveness of treatments proposed for each patient. Medica...

Introns in UTRs: why we should stop ignoring them.

Although introns in 5'- and 3'-untranslated regions (UTRs) are found in many protein coding genes, rarely are they considered distinctive entities with specific functions. Indeed, mammalian transcripts with 3'-UTR introns are often assumed nonfunctional because they are subject to elimination by nonsense-mediated decay (NMD). Nonetheless, recent findings indicate that 5'- and 3'-UTR intron stat...