Time to change a worrying trend

Climate change. A worrying trend of less ice, higher seas.

Idiopathic Granulomatosis Mastitis, Time to a Paradigm Change in Treatment

Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) is among the chronic diseases of the breast, which is more common in Middle Eastern countries than in Western countries. Since the etiology of the disease is not well known, there is no international consensus on the management of the disease. Antibiotic, Non-Steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), corticosteroids, cytotoxic and immunosuppressive medi...

A Comparison of Alternative Asymptotic Frameworks to Analyze a Structural Change in a Linear Time Trend

This paper considers various asymptotic approximations to the finite sample distribution of the estimate of the break date in a simple one-break model for a linear trend function that exhibits a change in slope, with or without a concurrent change in intercept. The noise component is either stationary or has an autoregressive unit root. Our main focus is on comparing the so-called “bounded-tren...

EDITORIAL - A new trend to Rehabilitation

Current understanding of disability and impairment has led to new approaches in Rehabilitation. In this issue of Iranian Rehabilitation Journal, a variety of articles introduces a new trend in rehabilitation. "Emotion pitch" of each vowel sound and Percentage of vowel correct is the subject which Talie Zarifian and her colleagues discussed in their article. Persian speaking children can get ben...

Worrying about wasting GP time as a barrier to help-seeking: a community-based, qualitative study

BACKGROUND Worrying about wasting GP time is frequently cited as a barrier to help-seeking for cancer symptoms. AIM To explore the circumstances under which individuals feel that they are wasting GP time. DESIGN AND SETTING Community-based, qualitative interview studies that took place in London, the South East and the North West of England. METHOD Interviewees (n = 62) were recruited fro...