Smokers in Marvel comics

Melatonin - marvel in the making?

© 2016 Indian Journal of Anaesthesia | Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow Ever since Aaron Bunsen Lerner isolated melatonin (N-acetyl-5-methoxytryptamine) from pineal glands of cattle in 1958, the hormone has been found to have several uses in humans. Endogenous melatonin is well recognised for its role in regulation of the circadian rhythm.[1] Exogenous melatonin has been studied for various ...

Comparison of Cotinine Salivary Levels in Hookah Smokers, Passive Smokers, and Non-‎Smokers

Background: At present smoking is considered a great health-related problem. Smoking cigarettes and use of tobacco are on the rise in the Middle East countries; therefore, the number of people exposed to passive cigarette smoke is increasing, too. The aim of the present study was to determine and compare salivary cotinine levels in hookah smokers, individuals exposed to passive cigarette smoke ...

Championing medicine's marvel

The parents of 24,000 children in northern Pakistan refused to allow health workers to administer polio vaccinations in January, mostly due to rumours that the vaccine was an American plot to sterilize Muslim children, in spite of the region being one of only three where the real threat of polio infection remains, as a result of the extraordinary success of vaccination programs worldwide. The c...

Collaboration through comics

This paper examines the role of design comics within business analysis. We first consider background to the use of comics within design work. This leads us to collate a number of advantages to using design comics as an intermediate and user-centric representation within acts of business analysis. We then describe our own use of design comics for making sense of socio-technical organisation and ...

Introducing Comics and Ideology