it is a great pleasure that we managed to publish the third issue ...

To publish or not to publish: that is the question?

Each manuscript received by JACC is sent out to two or more reviewers and is also reviewed by the Editor (or Associate Editor) to whom it is assigned. Each Tuesday morning at our weekly Editors’ meetings, manuscripts are reviewed relative to suitability for publication. We always have more manuscripts with good reviews than we can publish. Such manuscripts are prioritized, thus resulting in the...

Is It Time to Say Farewell to the ISDS System?; Comment on “The Trans-Pacific Partnership: Is It Everything We Feared for Health?”

Investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) continues to plague health-oriented government regulation. This is particularly reflected in recent challenges to tobacco control measures through bilateral investment agreements. There are numerous reform proposals circulating within the public health community. However, I suggest that perhaps it is time for the community to explore a stronger position ...

MESSAGE It gives me great pleasure that a national level conference on medical informatics and

s and Short Papers Standardization in Telemedicine in India: Initiatives and Policy Issues B.S.Bedi 189 Taking Telemedicine To Indian Villages The Wimax Way D. Lavanian 190 Teleradiology Clinical Experience and Education R.B. Gujral , Archna Gupta 192 Telemedicine for Disaster Mitigation in Health A Ayyagari, Ujjala Ghoshal 193 Tele-Consultancy in Specialty Medicine Bidyut Das 194 Tele-Cme for ...

Beyond Talking: We Need Effective Measures to Tackle Systemic Corruption and the Power That Allows It to Persist in Health Systems; A Response to Recent Commentaries

aggression: is that an issue for worrying?

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A study of the reference of pronoun ‘this’ in “All praise is due to Allah who guided us to this and we would not have found the way had it not been that Allah had guided us”

We encounter with some pronouns in the Holy Quran that are with no reference. Of course this makes mind search for their reference with regard to the verses’ meaning and intention, otherwise it views as subjective interpretation of Quranic text. One of these cases is the pronoun ‘this’ in (7: 43) in which anyone who is in Paradise says: “All praise is due to Allah who gu...