Shape of Training: the right people with the right skills in the right place

Shape of Training: the right people with the right skills in the right place.

INTRODUCTION A medical student entering medical school in 2014 will become a consultant sometime around 2027. The whole face of healthcare will have changed by then. The population is ageing, there are increasing numbers of people with multiple comorbidities and patients are increasingly demonstrating greater expectations of the quality of healthcare they receive. In addition, rapid technologic...

STAFFING IN MATERNITY UNITS Getting the right people in the right place at the right time

Airway Inflammatory Biomarker: Could It Tailor the Right Medications for the Right Asthmatic Patient?

Asthma is a heterogeneous disease, in which asthmatic patients present with different clinical phenotypes, variable endotypes, and different response to asthma medicines. Thus, we are faced with an asthma paradox; asthma is diagnosed subjectively by clinical history and treated with biologically active drugs. To solve this paradox, we need objective airway biomarkers to tailor the proper medica...

Being on the right path

Being on the right pathThe 1st issue of the Iranian Journal of Radiation Research (IJRR) was published two years ago (June 2003). This journal was initiated to bring together the various disciplines of radiation oncology, radiation biology, medical physics, nuclear medicine and other related subjects to intensify the dialogue between basic and clinical researchers especially those working in Ir...

MicroRNA-155 in the Heart: The Right Time at the Right Place in the Right Cell.