Russia recently invited the Palestinian organization Hamas to Moscow and, at the same time, is involved in negotiating with Iran regarding its nuclear program. These two recent developments, tied with Russia's recent use of its energy weapon Gazprom against Ukraine, makes clear that Russia is returning to the international arena. In light of these developments, does Russia's return as a major p...

In Iran like other developed countries, first, we need to identify the additional costs of disability for People with different types and severity of the disability. Here, we should use a conceptual framework to measure costs of disability properly. Second, we should promote access to services used frequently by PWD such as medicines, rehabilitation services, transportation, and adaptations. Th...

We read with great interest the paper by Cheikh Rouhou et al., which was recently published online in TheScientificWorldJOURNAL[1]. In this article, the authors report a new case of pulmonary and vertebral blastomycosis from Tunisia. They found that the probable reservoir of Blastomyces dermatitidis is the soil. Blastomycosis is considered a rare and sporadic disease in Africa, unlike in some e...

In 1835, Hans Christian Andersen published “The Emperor’s New Clothes”, one of the 164 fairy tales that earned him worldwide fame. A little more than 25 years ago, drawing inspiration from that tale, F. Gross reported the existence of an ailment capable of affecting multiple systems, “the Emperor’s clothes syndrome”. This syndrome primarily affects students and physicians for whom career succes...

Recent US studies have presented case series of patient with allergic contact dermatitis (ACD) allegedly caused by formaldehyde in clothes treated with durable-press chemical finishes (DPCF), which are known formaldehyde releasers. However, the amounts of formaldehyde released by modern DPCF are thought to be well below the levels previously estimated to be able to elicit ACD. The objectives of...