of 7 Conventional wisdom holds that extended bouts of monostructural training (run, bike, swim, row, etc.), commonly referred to as “cardio”, confer distinct and powerful advantage to athletic conditioning. This month we explore the proposition that traditional “cardio” may be neither as distinct nor as powerfula contribution to general conditioning as widely believed. In fact, we assert that C...

Your line of questioning brings up a crucial point because emotional abuse can be complicated to discern, especially when compared to physical abuse since no visible wounds or scars are present; however, the impact of emotional abuse can be just as traumatic. Verbal abuse is the most common form and can be as obvious as threats, judgmental statements, blaming, lying, ordering, and name-calling,...

Xu et al. (1) reported the alvarezsauroid Linhenykus monodactylus from Inner Mongolia, a confirmed monodactyl Mesozoic dinosaur. Xu et al.’s (1) phylogenetic hypothesis for Linhenykus suggests that it is sister to a clade that includes all other Cretaceous Laurasian alvarezsauroids. On this basis, Xu et al. (1) discussed the paleobiogeographic history of Alvarezsauroidea, concluding that the li...

BACKGROUND AND AIM: This study aimed to determine the rate of published qualitative research in the field of public health including dental researches in Iran and to appraise their quality.METHODS: A total of 165 articles which published in 170 Iranian Medical Journals between years 2000 and 2014 were found eligible to the study. 48 papers were selected randomly. The papers were appraised by tw...

Claire-Lise Chaignat Global Task Force on Cholera Control, Department of Neglected Tropical Diseases, Communicable Diseases Cluster, World Health Organization, 20, av. Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland Tel.: +41 227 913 914 Fax: +41 227 914 777 [email protected] “...cholera is re-emerging, in conjunction with the ever-increasing proportion of vulnerable populations living in unsanitary conditi...

We recognize the desire to produce a “Five things to know about ...” article for a common clinical condition. After all, the popular press constantly barrages us with similar entertaining lists of facts we didn’t know about certain things. Squissato and Brown1 have selected some interesting articles on which to comment from many thousands of possible articles. The danger of this approach was th...

Your line of questioning brings up a crucial point because emotional abuse can be complicated to discern, especially when compared to physical abuse since no visible wounds or scars are present; however, the impact of emotional abuse can be just as traumatic. Verbal abuse is the most common form and can be as obvious as threats, judgmental statements, blaming, lying, ordering, and name-calling,...