ramadan fasting: do we need more evidence?

Ramadan fasting: Do we need more evidence?

Over a billion of Muslims fast worldwide during Ramadan each year. Through this religious custom, fasting contributes to their health as well as their spiritual growth. However, available evidence regarding the health-benefits of Ramadan fasting is scarce and highly contentious. Although Islam exempts patients from fasting, many fast conceivably, and their clinical condition is prone to deterio...

How to treat diminutive polyps? Do we need more evidence?

THIEME The question of whether we manage polyps effectively has come to prominence because of the rates of interval or post-colonoscopy colorectal cancers, which range from 2.5 % to 10.7 % and which may in part be due to a failure to resect polyps completely (radically) [1, 2]. This issue was highlighted in the recently reported CARE (Complete Adenoma REsection) study of polyps 5 to 20 mm in si...

Staff Burnout… Do we need any intervention?

Dear Editor, As you know physical and mental wellness of physicians and nurses, as the main role in the treatment of patients, in conditions such as burnout, compassion fatigue, depression, and poor work-life balance, is one of the top priorities in the U.S.A. National Academy of Medicine  (1-4). Although healthcare team members are generally known as a caregiver to others;  their h...

Do we need more research on neurolathyrism

It is nearly four decades since the discovery of ODAP as the major neurotoxic constituent of Lathyrus sativus seeds. However, several basic questions relating to neurolathyrism still remain unanswered. We are unable to convince several governments to ban the cultivation of the pulse and to take on a more serious approach to introducing the low toxin varieties. Meanwhile, farmers continue to gro...

Do we really need more biomarkers?

Do we really need more research?