cancer biopsy in ancient persian medicine: do or not to do!

Cancer Biopsy in Ancient Persian Medicine: Do or Not to Do!

One of the controversial topics in cancer research and its clinical approach is the influence of biopsy on the possibility of tumor spread and metastasis that seems to be a new issue in medical knowledge (1-2), but Avicenna in more than a thousand years ago (980–1037 AD) in his book (Cannon of medicine) has been connoting on this subject (3). According to the Avicenna opinion, cancer is describ...

Performance of electrophysiologic study in an asymptomatic patient with type 2 intermittent Brugada syndrome: To do or not to do?

Background: Brugada syndrome (BrS) is an inherited channelopathy, which is associated with sudden cardiac death due to rapid polymorphic VT or VF. There is no definite consensus regarding the management of asymptomatic patients. Some experts advocate close follow-up; others propose the programmed stimulation for risk stratification. We aimed to evaluate the benefit of complete atrial and ventri...

To do or not to do?

Contrasting an imaginary German laboratory worker who in 1939 sabotaged experiments involving the mentally retarded, and an imaginary American animal liberationist who recently vandalized a primate research facility, Singer discusses civil disobedience by animal rightists. He raises and answers criticisms as to why the German worker and the animal liberationist both were justified in their act...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

EEG in psychiatric practice : to do or not to do ?

The first electro encephalo graphy (EEG) on a human was reported by Hans Berger in 1920. The fundamental principle of EEG is to record the electrical activity produced by the brain, using electrodes. In considering the role of EEG in psychiatry almost 25 years later, Dennis Williams (1954) observed that studies of EEG recordings had offered the clinical psychiatrist little of positive value. He...

Home testing: to do or not to do?