Neurology/Psychiatry Clerkship Cases: “I Need More Vicodin!”

Ramadan fasting: Do we need more evidence?

Over a billion of Muslims fast worldwide during Ramadan each year. Through this religious custom, fasting contributes to their health as well as their spiritual growth. However, available evidence regarding the health-benefits of Ramadan fasting is scarce and highly contentious. Although Islam exempts patients from fasting, many fast conceivably, and their clinical condition is prone to deterio...

Need I Say More? On Factors Causing Referential Overspecification

We present the results of an elicitation experiment conducted to investigate which factors cause speakers to overspecify their referential expressions, where we hypothesized properties of the target and properties of the communicative setting to play a role. The results of this experiment show that speakers tend to provide more information when referring to a target in a more complex domain and...

Addiction Studies in Iran Neuroscientists Need to Do More

Why do we prescribe Vicodin?

Paul A. Moore, DMD, PhD, MPH; Raymond A. Dionne, DDS, PhD; Stephen A. Cooper, DMD, PhD; Elliot V. Hersh, DMD, MS, PhD V icodin, a fixed-dose combination analgesic containing acetaminophen, or N-acetyl-p-aminophenol, (APAP) and hydrocodone, is the most frequently recommended opioid pain reliever prescribed by US oral surgeons after the extraction of third molars. It was first introduced to the U...

ramadan fasting: do we need more evidence?

over a billion of muslims fast worldwide during ramadan each year. through this religious custom, fasting contributes to their health as well as their spiritual growth. however, available evidence regarding the health-benefits of ramadan fasting is scarce and highly contentious. although islam exempts patients from fasting, many fast conceivably, and their clinical condition is prone to deterio...