since the end of the cold war era in a u-turn in her foreign policy india has changed from a fighter with imperialism to a close ally of the west. beside political factors, economic factors and above all waves of globalization were among the most influential causes of this u-turn. analysts hold different attitudes towards why such a change happened and whether it was in the interest of india in...

background: carriers of translocations may have an increased risk of an unbalanced progeny due to imbalances and delays in meiosis. case: a 24-year-old pregnant iranian female was referred to the genetic department of yazd clinical and research centre for infertility because of her pregnancy history. she had three previous pregnancies, two of which ended in abortion. the one live born infant wa...

Like the innate antibodies she studies , Nicole Baumgarth acts fast in the face of adversity. When she wasn't allowed to enroll in the African livestock program that she had her heart set on in college, Baumgarth switched to mice. When Reagan was elected, she opted for the post-doc in Austra-lia. When a car hit her bicycle soon after moving to the US for a second post-doc, she didn't head home ...

Picture this. It’s a true story. A twenty-nine-year-old woman enters a hospital emergency room with complaints of fever and cough. In the emergency room her fever is confirmed, she has a cursory exam and is sent for a chest X-ray that shows a left mid-lung infiltrate (see the X-ray above). A diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is made, and the patient is discharged on azithromycin. ...

Objective: Hematometra is a rare and delayed complication of medical termination of pregnancy. Acquired acute hematometra also termed the postabortal syndrome or the redo syndrome is a rare complication of suction evacuation with incidence ranging from 0.1 to 1 per 100 suction curettage abortions. The treatment consists of prompt evacuation of both liquid and clotted blood leading to rapid reso...

We report improved ability to name pictures at 2 and 8 months after repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) treatments to the pars triangularis portion of right Broca's homologue in a 57 year-old woman with severe nonfluent/global aphasia (6.5 years post left basal ganglia bleed, subcortical lesion). TMS was applied at 1 Hz, 20 minutes a day, 10 days, over a two-week period. She rec...

Fibromatosis arising from the breast, also referred to as desmoid tumor, aggressive fibromatosis, or low-grade fibrosarcoma, is a rare benign entity, accounting for only 0.2% of all breast tumors. Associations with familial multicentric fibromatosis and trauma, including that resulting from surgical intervention, have been reported. Awareness of this lesion is important, as the diagnosis has of...

At present, health care staff do not seem to have sufficient knowledge about their patients' abusive experiences. The aim of the present study is to analyze and discuss what the implications might be for the encounter between patients and health care professionals, when experiences of abuse are concealed. The methodology of this article is varied: a personal narrative, medical records, sociolog...

reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page A 17-year-old girl was diagnosed with liver dysfunction during a regular medical follow-up for a previous liver transplantation. She had undergone the Kasai procedure (hepatoportoenterostomy) on the 73rd day after birth for biliary atresia, ...