BACKGROUND Most women are diagnosed with breast cancer (BC) when they are still at the appropriate age for employment. The increasing survival rates of patients with BC call for more attention to their ability to return to work. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to identify factors related to the return to work in Iranian women underwent BC treatment. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 175 ...

INTRODUCTION Experts consider social accountability as a new paradigm in medical education and a cultural change that is necessary to be studied and understood more deeply. One of the problems of medical education is the inadequacy of medicine graduates to meet the social accountability. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine the general medicine curriculum for social accountability. ...

BACKGROUND Contamination of water by toxic chemicals has become commonly recognized as an environmental concern. Based on our clinical observation in Mashhad, northeastern Iran, many people might be at risk of exposure to high concentrations of toxic heavy metals in water. Because wastewater effluents as well as water wells have been commonly used for irrigation over the past decades, there has...

BACKGROUND More than 30% of pregnancies in Iran are unintended and most of them happen among the women who use various contraceptive methods. Results of Integrated Monitoring and Evaluation System (IMES) showed that the rate of innovative contraceptive use in Mashhad has been 41.5%-57% in different urban areas. This study was conducted to explore the process of making decision toward using fami...

BACKGROUND In order to provide a better healthcare education to the society, health care students should have an acceptable electronic health (E-Health) literacy. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to assess the level of E-Health literacy of Medicine and Health Sciences university students in Mashhad, Iran. METHODS This cross-sectional study was performed on 192 students of Mashhad Univers...

Background and Aim: Phonological awareness skills, as part of phonological processing abilities, can predict the extent success in acquiring written reading skills. skills are concern children with severe profound hearing loss, which has been less studied this population. Thus, study aimed to evaluate these Cochlear-Implanted (CI) compare them their healthy counterparts. Methods & Materials...

BACKGROUND Tobacco consumption is the second major cause of death and the fourth most common risk factor for diseases, worldwide. Epidemiologic studies have traced the use of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit substances among medical students and physicians. OBJECTIVES The current study aimed to investigate the prevalence of cigarette smoking and the related factors among the students of medical ...

INTRODUCTION Toxic mushrooms are distributed across the globe with over 5000 species. Among them, 100 species are responsible for most of the cases of mushroom poisoning. This study aimed to evaluate the epidemiologic pattern of mushroom poisoning among patients referred to the main toxicology center of Mashhad province located in North-east of Iran. METHOD This cross-sectional study was cond...

Depth image based rendering techniques for multiview applications have been recently introduced for efficient view generation at arbitrary camera positions. Encoding rate control has thus to consider both texture and depth data. Due to different structures of depth and texture images and their different roles on the rendered views, distributing the available bit budget between them however requ...