Background: Among various emergency services, the air emergency due to access to the extreme areas, possibility to move more patients, providing higher quality treatment to the patient being carried and also access to the hospital without problems such as traffic and sudden crashes, is one of the most important types of emergencies in the health sector. So, the right location according to the s...

Hot, humid weather causes to the sultry feel. Sultry condition is usually accompanied with loss of physical ability and human respiratory and it has an adverse effect on peoples who have circulatory or other heart problems and this feeling is more than others. Sultry feel is a feeling like any other sensitive reflections of mental state. And this state apparently can’t be measured by spec...

To evaluate the genotype × environment interaction and determine the stable genotypes of wheat, 30 genotypes of bread wheat along with two controls namely Chamran  and Chamran 2 were studied in 6 locations (Ahwaz, Darab, Dezful, Iranshahr, Khorramabad, Zabul) and two years (from 2013 to 2015), in each using an alpha lattice design with 4 replications. The results obtained from AMMI analysis dem...

Aims and Background: One of the problems that patients with coronary artery bypass surgery encounter is pain that can have undesirable consequences. This research aims to investigate the effects of foot reflexology massage on pain in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery. Materials and methods: This clinical trial was performed on 52 patients after coronary artery bypass surgery. D...

    Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is a frequent X-chromosome-linked enzyme abnormality. G6PD is the first key enzyme in the pentose phosphate metabolic pathway and is involved in the generation of NADPH, which is indispensable for biosynthesis of reduced glutathione (GSH). GSH prevents hemoglobin denaturation, preserves the integrity of red blood cell (RBC) membrane sulfhy...

  Background and Aim : The National Malaria Control Program was developed, in 2011, into the National Malaria Surveillance Program. It is one of the most comprehensive surveillance systems in Iran. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of malaria elimination program on data quality and accuracy in the national malaria surveillance system.   Materials and Methods : This was a cross...

To evaluate quantitative and qualitative traits as well as thrips resistance of onion genotypes, an experiment was conducted at Behbahan Agricultural Research Station, Behbahan, Khuzestan, Iran from 2013 to 2015. The experiment was a split plot based on a randomized complete block design with three replications. Pesticide-treated and pesticide-free plots were considered as sub plots and ten oni...