Introducing a New Series: Immunotherapy Facts and Hopes

Introducing a New Lifetime Distribution of Power Series Distribution of the Family Gampertz

In this Paper, We propose a new three-parameter lifetime of Power Series distributions of the Family Gampertz with decreasing, increasing, increasing-decreasing and unimodal Shape failure rate. The distribution is a Compound version of of the Gampertz and Zero-truncated Possion distributions, called the Gampertz-Possion distribution (GPD). The density function, the hazard rate function, a gener...

Genetic markers of osteoarticular disorders: facts and hopes

Osteoarthritis and osteoporosis are the two most common age-related chronic disorders of articular joints and skeleton, representing a major public health problem in most developed countries. Apart from being influenced by environmental factors, both disorders have a strong genetic component, and there is now considerable evidence from large population studies that these two disorders are inver...

Allergen immunotherapy: the scientific facts.

Introducing a new series of invited review articles.

353 In a number of fields of medical research, Malaysian investigators have made notable scientific contributions, which, perhaps for their importance, have been published in international scientific journals. These findings, scattered in various specialist medical journals, would have found their audience among specialists of similar interests. However, these findings ought to be of interest t...

Introducing a new series: evidence-based decision-making.

A patient comes to your office with repeated unwanted and intrusive thoughts that prevent her from conducting her daily life activities and that make her anxious. You apply a simple screening and conclude that she may have an obsessive-compulsive disorder. The work-up rules out other less frequent causes of similar manifestations and a more formal diagnostic interview confirms your clinical sus...