Patient management and the association of less common familial Mediterranean fever symptoms with other disorders.

Purpose: In this study, we present clinical data from 16,000 familial Mediterranean fever patients. We also discuss the clinical manifestation of a subset of these patients and their potential symptom associations with other disorders.

Methods: Familial Mediterranean fever patients were confirmed using Tel-Hashomer criteria and were tested for the 12 most common mutations using the familial Mediterranean fever StripAssay.

[Delayed medical consequences of the Chernobyl accident in Armenia. Assessment of life quality and accelerated biological aging of accident liquidators].

In this paper, some final results of 25-year investigations carried out in Scientific Centre for Radiation Medicine and Burns MH RA (SCRMB) on the Armenian cohort of the Chernobyl accident consequences liquidators are shown. These results show that health conditions of the liquidators became worse during the whole observation period. A considerable development of both pathological states atypical of radiation damages and diseases, which may be considered as radiation-induced ones, was determined.

Scientific forensics: how the Office of Research Integrity can assist institutional investigations of research misconduct during oversight review.

The Division of Investigative Oversight within the U.S. Office of Research Integrity (ORI) is responsible for conducting oversight review of institutional inquiries and investigations of possible research misconduct.