Background: Elective Abortion means termination of pregnancy by drugs or manipulation. The aim of this research is to evaluate the challenges of elective abortion in Iranian society. Materials and Methods: This descriptive study is done on 113 pregnant women wanted to do abortion who referred to Dr Rasekh clinic that were studied through a questionnaire with six questions. Collection of informa...

Dear Editor, Estrogen deficiency in women is an important risk factor for serious disorders such as severe cardiovascular diseases (1). Several different conditions can lead to estrogen deficiency with premature ovarian failure (POF) being an important one (2, 3). POF includes the cessation of normal ovarian function before age 40, causing menopausal symptoms and general health problems. Althou...

Herbal medications are being progressively utilized all over the world. Nevertheless, herbal remedies are not without hazards and several cases of adverse reactions have been described. Tribulus terrestris is traditionally used because of its aphrodisiac and antiurolithiatic activities with almost complete inhibition of stone formation. We report a case of T. terrestris-induced hepatotoxicity, ...

In this paper we will present a 49 years old Iranian man with a totally different craniocervical junction. The case has referred with severe headache, as his chief complaint, to the emergency ward of Hazrat Rasoul hospital (Tehran, Iran) in March 2012. After admission and primary examinations, in order to find the cause of headache, the patient was referred to imaging department requesting brai...

Patients with limbic encephalitis usually present with new onset mesial temporal lobe seizures, progressive memory disturbance, and a variety of other behavioral, emotional, and cognitive changes. Autoimmune inflammation of the limbic gray matter structures of the human brain has recently been identified as major cause of mesial temporal lobe epilepsy with interictal temporal epileptiform activ...

BACKGROUND The Bipolar Disorder Patients Follow-up (BDPF) project is a longitudinal, prospective and naturalistic study. The purpose of the present report is to introduce the project, elaborate its methods, and present the reliability data of the utilized symptoms rating scales. METHODS The sampling started in May 2008 and is still in progress. The probands are assessed at the beginning of th...

To study the structure of Iranian chemistry research, we identified 43 Iranian and international chemists who were highly cited in 7,682 Iranian chemistry publications (defined as an article with at least one Iranian author address) indexed in Science Citation Index (SciSearch) between 1990 and 2006, inclusive. We collected cocitation data for these authors from the entire SciSearch file (Dialo...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the frequency of premenstrual symptoms and prevalence of PMS among young Iranian women. METHOD A cross-sectional study was carried out in 2005 among female students of Zahedan University (Iran), aged 18-27 years. Overall 300 participants were asked to complete an anonymous questionnaire assessing premenstrual symptoms. The items of the questionnaire were derived from ...

The genus Ononis,embraces more than 85 species worldwide. In the present study, materials of two subspecies of O. spinosa from different localities of Iran alongside some other native species of the genus were included in phylogenetic analyses. In addition, over 50 accessions were obtained from GenBank. In order to clarify the exact number of subspecies of O. spinosa in Iran, datasets were obta...

Since 1998, an epidemic of avian influenza occurred in the Iranian poultry industry. The identified agent was a low-pathogenicity H9N2 avian influenza virus that caused frequent episodes of high mortality in broiler chicken farms in Iran and some other Asian countries. This study was designed to investigate the prevalence of AIV H9N2 subtype in commercial chicken flocks in Dezful, southern Iran...