Background: The therapeu c administra on of I for thyroid remnant abla on and for metastases comes up with some adverse effects. This study was conducted to inves gate whether single high dose radioiodine therapy affects lacrimal gland func ons or not. Materials and Methods: Seventy‐eight eyes of 39 pa ents, who were diagnosed as differen ated thyroid carcinoma, were objec vely tested with Schi...

Ming H. Jih, MD, PhD; Paul M. Friedman, MD; Arash Kimyai-Asadi, MD; Edward S. Friedman, MD; Sharon R. Hymes, MD; Leonard H. Goldberg, MD; DermSurgery Associates (Drs Jih, P. M. Friedman, Kimyai-Asadi, and Goldberg), The University of Texas School of Medicine (Dr P. M. Friedman), Baylor College of Medicine (Dr E. S. Friedman), and The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (Drs Hymes a...

the purpose of this study was to evaluate the rate of using standards of designing electronic courses in educational contents of state-virtual universities in iran. the method of the study was a descriptive-survey one. the statistical population was the educational content of electronic courses in state-virtual universities such as university of science and technology, and shiraz university. da...

The Pólya process is an urn scheme arising in the context of the contagion spreading. It exhibits unstable persistence effects. The Friedman urn process is dual to the Pólya one with antipersistent stabilizing effects. It appears in a safety campaign problem. A Pólya-Friedman urn process is investigated with a tuning persistence parameter extrapolating the latter two extreme processes. The stud...

Adrienne S. Glaich, MD; Leonard H. Goldberg, MD, FRCP; Tianhong Dai, PhD; Joy H. Kunishige, MD; Paul M. Friedman, MD; DermSurgery Associates, Houston, Texas (Drs Glaich, Goldberg, and Friedman); and Departments of Dermatology, Weill Cornell Medical College, Methodist Hospital, Houston (Drs Goldberg and Friedman), Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts (Dr Dai), and The University of Texa...