Recent political events in the United States have created a political climate that promotes prejudice against Middle Eastern, Iranian, and Muslim people. In this study, we were interested in investigating two questions: (1) How welcome do Iranian-American men and women from various religious backgrounds (Muslim, Jewish, or no religious affiliation) feel in their new homeland (specifically, how ...

A recent ground-breaking publication described hypothalamus-driven programmatic aging. As a Russian proverb goes "everything new is well-forgotten old". In 1958, Dilman proposed that aging and its related diseases are programmed by the hypothalamus. This theory, supported by beautiful experiments, remained unnoticed just to be re-discovered recently. Yet, it does not explain all manifestations ...

A more poetic description of the process might be the current title. As the proverb says it is wisdom that we want and much of what we do is aimed at acquiring it. On reflection, the acquisition of wisdom is a two stage process. In the first stage ideas are accumulated and explored; in the second those ideas that have withstood the “experience test” are retained and recounted to others as insig...

able nerve stimulator in a pilot study carried out in a porcine model. The true value of this study lies in the detection of impedance changes that signify intraneural needle placement. Depending on the species, the noted change in impedance may be an increase or a decrease, and it may even be transient in nature. As it is said in a famous Chinese proverb attributed to Deng Xiaoping for his pra...

C. P. Brown was the first to collect the palm-leaf manuscripts of Vemana's verses from different centres. He collected about 2500 verses and published some of them with English translation. A number of edition> with ver ses ranging from 100 to 5000 were brought forth by different editors/publishers. It is therefore difficult to establish the authenticity of these verses. The possibility of attr...

Ali Janati, Homayoun Sadeghi-bazargani, Edris Hasanpoor, Mobin Sokhanvar, Elaheh HaghGoshyie. Associate professor, PhD of Healthcare Management, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management (IceHM), Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Professor, PhD of Epidemiology, Road Traffic Injury Prevention Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; PhD can...

IRAN: A STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS Morteza Arab-Zozani, Habib Jalilian, Mina Mahami Oskouei, Mohammad Dehghanian, Zoleikha Asadi Aghbalaghi. School of management and medical informatics, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; School of management and medical informatics, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management, Tabriz Universi...