Despite much attention for group polarization in online environments, little is known about how membership affects behavior. We designed an platform where ethnic minority and majority users the Netherlands participated discussions controversial topics (homosexuality abortion). Participants were randomly assigned to either progressive, conservative, or mixed on these topics, which ostensibly hel...

Claudius Amyand's hernia is defined by the incarceration of vermicular appendix through hernial sac. The first appendectomy was performed in 1735. It a very rare pathology. Therefore, frequency this pathology not yet established. We report observation 54-year-old patient with an estimated BMI 25.5 kg: height2 simple inguinal that followed up and admitted to emergency room painless impulsive swe...

Acute Appendicitis (AA) is the most commonly encountered disease in emergency clinics, with about 250,000 cases of appendicitis reported in The United States and 40,000 in England each year (Deng et al., 2010; Simpson et al., 2008). The key form of treatment for the disease is surgery and the mortality, morbidity, and economic cost ratio rise the longer it remains untreated. Despite the high pr...

Claudius Galen and his scholarly teachings defined the practice of medicine in Western Europe for 1500 years (Figure 1). His empiric approach, based on original animal experimentation, and his reputation for miraculous cures had an enormous influence on Western medicine during the Middle Ages and Renaissance until William Harvey’s discovery of the circulation of blood in the early seventeenth c...