Is There a Rationale for Using Bacillus Calmette–Guerin Vaccine in Coronavirus Infection?

Is There Any Rationale for Reserve Requirements?

Reserve requirements have been part of the regulator)' apparatus of banking in the United States for more than a century and a half. No matter what their original purpose may have been, maintaining the burden of reserve requirements needs a contemporary rationale that can justify the problems they create. The problems attributed to reserve requirements are woven into the fabric of financial mar...

Lone AF: is There a Rationale?

Although atrial fibrillation (AF) development has been demonstrated to be associated with underlying cardiovascular conditions such as hypertension, valvular heart disease or diabetes mellitus; in a subset of relatively younger patients, no cardiopulmonary disease diagnosis can be established. AF patients younger than 60 years without clinical or echocardiographic evidence of cardiopulmonary di...

is there need for a new hepatitıs b vaccine schedule for children with celiac disease?

Postnatal screening for Klinefelter syndrome: is there a rationale?

UNLABELLED Diagnosis of Klinefelter syndrome (KS) allows for timely beneficial interventions across the lifespan. Most cases currently remain undiagnosed because of low awareness of KS amongst health professionals, the hesitancy of men to seek medical attention and its variable clinical presentation. Given these barriers, population-based genetic screening provides an approach to comprehensive ...

Is there a role for a vaccine in leprosy control?

‘Morbidity control’ is a recurring theme of a recent WHO report entitled “Global strategy for further reducing the leprosy burden and sustaining leprosy control activities: 2006–2010”. While the approach seems rational, based on our current tools for controlling leprosy (i.e., timely detection of new cases, treatment with effective chemotherapy, prevention of disabilities and rehabilitation), i...