BACKGROUND Hand Eczema (HE) is a dermatological disorder with frequent relapses and multiple causes such as atopic, allergic and irritant contact dermatitis. The management is complex because of the wide range of different pathogenesis. Efficacy of some of available treatments is not well established and it can affect patients' quality of life significantly. METHODS Reports on HE such as diag...

Many species of tea (Camellia sinensis) and cowslip (Echium amoenum) are used in Iranian traditional medicine. The aim of this study was to conduct the survey on the ability of Iranian black tea and cowslip extracts on secretion of tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) by non-infected and infected mouse macrophages. A macrophage infection model with Legionella pneumophila and enzyme linked im...

Hemodialysis (HD) patients are recognized as one of the high-risk groups for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. The prevalence of HCV infection varies widely between 5.5% and 24% among different Iranian populations. Preventive programs for reducing HCV infection prevalence in these patients require accurate information. In the present study, we estimated HCV infection prevalence in Iranian HD p...

BACKGROUND Inequality in households' payments on food and health expenditures presents the accessibility and utilization patterns between them. This study investigated the Iranian rural and urban households' inequality in payments on food and Out-of-Pocket health expenditures from 1998 to 2012. METHODS This descriptive study was conducted through the analysis of Iranian Statistics Centre data...

b ackground: the main goal of present study was to detect polymorphism in msp-1 gene which is a major blood stage candidate for vaccine in plasmodium vivax by single strand conformational poly- morphism-polymerase chain reaction (sscp-pcr). m ethods: during 2008 to 2010 fifty samples were collected from iranian patients with p. vivax in hormozgan province, southern iran. all of the samples were...

using discourse analysis theories and methods, the authors try to analyze the elements of the civil modern family pattern as an outcome and objective adequacy of the civil society in the three descriptive, interpretative and explanative levels in the perspective of the contemporary socio-political history of the iranian society. to this end, the authors develop and employ a synthetic model (bas...

OBJECTIVES Sarcopenia is associated with frailty and disability among the elderly and imposes significant costs on health care systems. We tested whether adherence to a particular dietary pattern was associated with sarcopenia among the elderly in a district of Tehran, Iran. METHODS We used a semiquantitative Food Frequency Questionnaire to assess the dietary intake of 300 randomly-selected e...

PURPOSE To investigate the correlation between floating versus adherent growth pattern of cultivated retinoblastoma (RB) cells from three patients with RB and their histopathologic features. METHODS RB cells from three Iranian patients (MM, NR, and MS) were cultivated in Dulbecco's modified eagle medium (DMEM) supplemented with 15% fetal bovine serum (FBS) for four weeks in each passage. Fres...

On March 9th, 2011, the eminent scholar of Iranian studies, historian, bibliographer, Persian manuscript expert, journalist, biographer and writer, Iraj Afshar passed away at the age of 85 in Tehran. His demise was a great loss to Iranian culture. He edited or wrote around 300 books in various fields of Iranian studies, including the history of medicine in Iran and published more than 2000 pape...