Being the second-largest country in the Middle East, Iran has a long history of civilisation
during which several dynasties have been overthrown and established and health-related …

Objectives The objective of this study was to establish the reliability and content validity of
the “Modified Naranjo Criteria for Homeopathy—Causal Attribution Inventory” as a tool for …

Introduction Case reports have been a long held tradition within the surgical literature.
Reporting guidelines can improve transparency and reporting quality. However, recent …

Background The clinical case report has a long-standing tradition in the medical literature.
While its scientific significance has become smaller as more advanced research methods …

Clinical discoveries largely depend on dedicated clinicians and scientists to identify and
pursue unique and unusual clinical encounters with patients and communicate these …

A (LONG OVERDUE) CAUSAL APPROACH TO INTRODUCTORY EPIDEMIOLOGY
Epidemiology is recognized as the science of public health, evidence-based medicine, and …

Because they do not rank highly in the hierarchy of evidence and are not frequently cited,
case reports describing the clinical circumstances of single patients are seldom published …

The molecular basis of the pathogenesis of the opportunistic invasive infections caused by
isolates of the Gemella genus remains largely unknown. Moreover, inconsistencies in the …

In this special issue we have asked the contributors to make a case for the case study. The
guest editors, Jeffrey Longhofer, Jerry Floersch and Eric Hartmann, intergrate ideas from …

Although medical case reports have fallen out of favor in the era of the impact factor, there is
a long tradition of using case reports for teaching and discovery. Some evidence indicates …