BACKGROUND Injuries are a major health problem in developing countries. Recently, the occurrence of injuries and those related to mortality have increased dramatically in Iran. We have conducted this study to report domestic research publications in the field of trauma from 2000 to 2006 in Iran. METHODS The contents of 128 biomedical journals were analyzed. Sina Trauma Data Bank (STDB) was se...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis D virus (HDV) is a defective RNA virus that depends on the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) of hepatitis B virus for its replication, developing exclusively in patients with acute or chronic hepatitis B. There are little data regarding the routes of HDV transmission in Iran. The risk factors for HDV infection in Iran are blood transfusion, surgery, family history, Hejama...

Principles of penetrating head trauma management were established by Harvey Cushing in relation to the management of penetrating brain injuries of World War One. Cushing radically debrided the scalp and skull and aggressively irrigated wound tracks to remove foreign bodies. He would then obtain water-tight closure. Cushing significantly decreased infection rates which reportedly limited the maj...

At the turn of the 20th century, according to estimations, the population of Iran was around 10 million. In 1933, it had increased to 13 million, in 1976, to 34 million and in 1986 to 49 million. By 1996, the Iranian population had reached 60 million, a more than six-fold increase within a century. The last three decades of the country’s history have been marked by major political changes, the ...

OBJECTIVE The paper presents a new trend of weight-for-height index of 2397 school children (1268 boys and 1129 girls) aged 6.5-11.5 years by sex in a representative sample from primary schools of Shiraz (Southern Iran) at an interval of 15 years (1988-2003) and its relation to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data (2000). METHODS The data relate to a multi-stage random sam...