abstract background: acute respiratory infections (ari) are the main cause for antibiotic (ab) use in all age groups specially the first two years of life. the local information about the pattern of ab prescription in ari is a necessary part for any program which aims logical use of ab. the current study was designed to find the frequency and types of ab administration for ari in young children...

one hundred one cases of urban cutaneous leishmaniasis from mashad and teh ran were placed under treatment with either one or two sim ultaneous standa rd doses of cycloguanil parnoate. out of 101 patients, 96 were followed until the 120th day; 31 (31 per cent ) recovered with in 60 days, ?3 ('3 per cent) recovered utter between 60 and i70 days, and 42 (42 per cent) did not respond. a higher rec...

objectives: the present study was carried out to investigate the relationship between different lunar phases and the occurrence of overdose attempted suicide. method: the study was carried out for a period of three lunar years (shaban 1416 to shaban 1419) with patients admitted to the intoxication emergency clinic at imam reza hospital in mashad. in this research, 13422 cases of suicide attempt...

background and objective: ischemic heart disease (ihd) following atherosclerosis is the most common cause of cardiac deaths world wide. we aimed to investigate the pathologic features of atherosclerosis in non cardiac death cases to have an estimate of atherosclerosis prevalence in mashad (north east of iran). patients and methods : this descriptive (cross sectional) study was done, during octo...

background: reporting quality of research on medical education has come under scrutiny in recent years in wake of empirical evidence. poor reporting quality of published abstracts may distract readers from careful reading of research evidence or in a worst case mislead scientists. main objective of this study was to evaluate the extent and quality of the submitted abstracts to the 3rd and 4th n...