introduction: medical students should be familiar with the end of life ethical issues and its considerations. for teaching end of life care to medical students, literature is a source of excellent narratives of patients with experiences of terminally ill condition in their journey through suffering and one of the most favourite bioethics literature readings has been the death of ivan ilych by t...

introduction: the majority of leukemia patients are acute leukemia patients, so that about 70.8% lymphoblastic leukemia were acute lymphoblastic leukemia (all) patients and 66.4 % of myeloid leukemia patients were acute myeloid leukemia (aml) in tehran metropolitan. during the last two decades, intensification of therapy by the use of high-dose cytarabine allogeneic stem cell transplantation in...

The health system of a country needs to be adjusted to patterns of morbidity and mortality to mitigate the income-erosion consequences of prolonged ill-health and premature death of adults. Population-based data on mortality by cause are a key to modifying the health system. However, these data are scarce, particularly for rural populations in developing countries. The objectives of this study ...

Recent studies have revolutionized our understanding of how the crucial apoptosis effectors Bax and Bak target mitochondria to kill cells. We recently reported that an important determinant of the localization, oligomerization, and apoptotic function of Bax is an interaction with either mitochondrial voltage-dependent anion channel 2 (VDAC2) (in healthy cells) or Bak (in apoptotic cells).(1).

Introduction: Death anxiety is one of the main elements in mental health in older adults. Objective: This study aimed to determine the effects of improving emotional intelligence on death anxiety in older adults in Kashan City, Iran. Materials and Methods: This quasi-experimental study was carried out on 60 older adults referred to health clinics in Kashan City, Iran, in 2019. The participant...

this is a mortality study in internal medicine wards of amir-alam hospital, since the beginning of 1374 to end of 1376. here, we reviewed, prevalence of disease lead to death, the ward and invasive interventions and duration of admission of patients before death. in this study, records of 85 patients were reviewed. 68.2% of patients were men and 31.8% women. mean of age was 61.6% with minimum o...

background and aims: coxsackievirus b3 (cvb3) is the most common agent known to cause viral myocarditis. the viral genome encodes a single polyprotein that is cleaved to produce several proteins by virally encoded proteases. most of this proteolytic processing is catalyzed by a cysteine protease called 3c. the 3c protease plays major role in viral replication and cellular damage. methods: to un...