the study investigated the relation between psychosocial factors and the etiology of iranian transsexualists in a retrospective design. records of 68 patients, between the years 1989 to 1995 who had been visited in one clinic were studied (11 records were not analyzed, because of the lack of required information, lack of diagnostic criteria and concomitant other mental disorders). results showe...

A update of the lung cancer staging system probably was long overdue because the old system was based on patients treated with surgery alone. And with greater numbers of patients with which to make staging classifications, the process of developing the staging system “has changed irrevocably,” according to Dr. Peter Goldstraw at the annual meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. The curren...