Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Reports on patients with steroid-dependent nephrotic syndrome and underlying minimal change disease or focal segmental glomerulosclerosis have shown promising results. There is a strong need for more trials conducted in a prospective, controlled manner to clearly recommend rituximab therapy in this indication on a regular basis.

*Corresponding author: Azar Baradaran, Department of Clinical Pathology, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Decision about the use of a drug on prevention or amelioration of diseases requires knowledge about the side effects on different organs, specially kidney or liver. A R T...

Exposure of the skin to UV radiation causes local and systemic immunosuppression through vitamin D and non-vitamin D pathways. This has implication for skin cancer development, autoimmune diseases and vaccination. New studies are exploring the clinical and public health importance of UV-induced immune suppression.

C om m en ta ry Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Oxford classification system was based on actual clinical data, international collaboration, and validation of the reproducibility of defining pathologic lesions. The strongest pathologic predictor of clinical outcome in IgA nephropathy is the extent of tubular atrophy and interstitial fibrosis. A R T I C L E I N...

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: PRF was initially regarded as a method of blocking nociceptive stimuli that is less destructive than a thermolesion. Since the introduction of the intra-articular application this concept has changed. PRF is now thought to have an anti-inflammatory effect on the immune system, acting on the nociceptive process itself instead of...

Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Glomerulocystic kidney is a lesion with protean causes and clinical manifestations. Recent clinicopathological and molecular genetic analysis have shed light on the varied etiology, symptomatology, presenting features and have allowed a better classification of the disease. An accurate categorization of the lesion is of utmost i...

*Corresponding author: Ali Ghorbani M.D, Department of Nephrology, Golestan Hospital, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Selenium supplementation reduces the products of oxidative stress in kidney failure patients and can be protective against cisplatin nephrotoxicity. ...

Classical logic is unfortunately defective with its problematic definition of implication relation, the “material implication”. This work presents a corrected definition of implication relation to replace material implication in classical logic. Common “paradoxes” of material implication are avoided while simplicity and usefulness of the system are reserved with this definition of implication r...

OBJECTIVES Review of public health perspectives of preeclampsia in developing countries and implications for health system strengthening. METHODS Literature from Pubmed (MEDLINE), AJOL, Google Scholar, and Cochrane database were reviewed. RESULTS The prevalence of preeclampsia in developing countries ranges from 1.8% to 16.7%. Many challenges exist in the prediction, prevention, and managem...