SP4.2.5 Did COVID-19 change the way we treat appendicitis?

One Semester of Occupational Therapy Passed Virtually: What Experiences Did We Learn from Covid-19?

One Semester of Occupational Therapy Passed Virtually: What Experiences Did We Learn from Covid-19?  Masoud Gharib 1, Seyed Ali Hosseini 2     1 Assistant Professor, Department of Occupational, Orthopedic Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran 2 Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran...

The Battle Against COVID-19: Where Do We Stand Now?

Early psoriatic arthritis: should we treat it in the same way as we treat rheumatoid arthritis?

2015 Joint damage predicts functional limitation and mortality in psoriatic arthritis patients, but evidence from cohort studies supports the idea that early diagnosis and treatment are beneficial. Given the revolution in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, treating to targets and close control have become attractive concepts in the clinical management of psoriatic arthritis. The evidence in...

Should our focus on inflammation change the way we practice?

Some scientists say, "Forget about bacteria; treat, or even better yet, prevent inflammation." We understand that periodontal diseases originate as bacterial assaults, but some two-thirds of the destruction comes from the inflammatory response to the bacterial invasion. There is growing evidence that inflammation can be transferred from the oral cavity to other parts of the body (and vice versa...

Could apoptosis change the way we do PRK?

Just when we thought photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) had achieved a level of safety and predictability in correcting refractive errors in our patients, new wounding healing information regarding apoptosis (programmed cell death) surfaces to show us that the way we remove the corneal epithelium matters a great deal in how the corneal stroma responds to our treatment.1 Excimer laser manufacture...