background: worldwide, cancer of stomach is still the fourth common cancer and the second cause of mortality among all cancers affecting annually 870,000 subjects. this study aims to determine the frequency and the characteristics of gastric cancer in southern iran. materials and methods: 10,800 of all cancers registered in fars hospital-based cancer registry were surveyed among which 574 cases...

conclusions this study highlights the burden of suicide and itspotential socio-demographic risk factors in sistan and blouchestan province. this information has an implication for planning the preventive measures, policy making and future research. results a greater proportion of the study subjects (65%) were female. they were more likely to be young (43.5% in the age group of 16 to 25 years) a...

polyomaviruses may cause human disease, particularly in immunocompromised hosts. jcv, one of the members of polyomaviridae family, is the causative agent of the neurological disease progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (pml), which occurs mostly in immunocompromised patients. progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (pml) is a progressive demyelinating disorder of the central nervous sy...

from April, 2009 to March, 2011 in China Maoti Wei, Zhong qiang Yan, Chunrong Wang, Wei Liu, Wuchun Cao Department of Epidemiology, Beijing Institute of Microbiology and Epidemiology, Beijing, China. Tianjin Key Laboratory for Prevention and control of Occupational and Environmental Hazard, Department of Epidemiology, Logistic University of CPAPF, Tianjin, China. Department of Clinical Microbio...

The concept of meta-epidemiology has been introduced with considering the methodological limitations of systematic review for intervention trials. The paradigm of meta-epidemiology has shifted from a statistical method into a new methodology to close gaps between evidence and practice. Main interest of meta-epidemiology is to control potential biases in previous quantitative systematic reviews ...

cancer-genetics epidemiology and genetics investigation in colorectal carcinomas: directions towards prevention

1 Centre for Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention (CPO Piemonte), Turin, Italy. 2 Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI) Foundation, Turin, Italy. 3 MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom. 4 Epidemiology Unit, National Cancer Institute, Milan, Italy. 5 Molecular and Nutritional Epidemiology Un...

Cholera is an epidemic disease and a real public health problem throughout the world, particularly in West Africa. This study provides comprehensive overview of pathogenicity, epidemiology Vibrio cholerae strains’s antibiotics resistance A literature review was conducted online English using keywords “Cholera”, “Vibrio cholerae” “West Africa”, “Epidemiology”, “Antibiotic resistance”. These were...

Calls by Lilienfeld, Fraser, and others some three decades ago to introduce epidemiology into undergraduate college education remain largely unfulfilled. Consideration of epidemiology as a "liberal art" has also led to exploring possibilities for introducing epidemiology into early education: to high and even middle schools. Adding epidemiology to school curricula should help educate the public...

1. Dept. of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 2. Dept. of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 3. Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4. Dept. of Epidemiology, School of Medicine, Kurdistan Uni...