BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most common cause of cancer death among women in the world. With prevention and examinations, including breast self-examination, the death rate will be reduced. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of health-belief-model-based training on the performance of women in breast self-examination in the province of Fars (Iran). METHODS An ...

BACKGROUND To describe the epidemiological features of pediatric visceral leishmaniasis in southern Iran. METHODS This retrospective study was carried out using local hospital records of VL patients from 2001 through 2009. Data such as age, gender, place of residence, clinical signs and symptoms, treatment, history of recurrence were recorded. The collected data were statistically analyzed us...

OBJECTIVE In Iran thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) based neonatal screening program is included in health care services from 2005 for detection of patients with primary congenital hypothyroidism (CH). This study was performed for a critical evaluation of the screening program primary congenital hypothyroidism in Fars province, Iran. METHODS From November 2006 to September 2007, TSH serum con...

OBJECTIVE To assess the efficacy of idebenone on neurological function in patients with Friedreich ataxia. DESIGN Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled intervention trial. SETTING Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of California at Los Angeles. PARTICIPANTS Seventy ambulatory pediatric patients (age, 8-18 years) with a baseline International Cooperative Ataxia R...

Alcohol involvement is a major contributing factor in the occurrence of motor vehicle traffic crashes. According to NHTSA’s preliminary estimate for 2002, alcohol was involved in about 42 percent of all motor vehicle crashes where there was a fatality. The most direct measure of a driver’s or nonoccupant’s alcohol involvement is a BAC test result reported in NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis Reporting ...

a survey was conducted to determine the species of the genus lissonota gravenhorst, 1829 in two iranian southern provinces of fars and hormozgan from february 2011 through august 2013. six species were identified of which five species are recorded for the first time from iran. the newly recorded species are as follows: lissonota bivittata gravenhorst, 1829, l. clypeator gravenhorst, 1820, l. im...

Andrenosoma lottae Mortelmans sp. nov. is described based on males and females from Fars province, Iran. Pictures of the habitus are provided, together with details male terminalia to facilitate species identification. The status violacea discussed hereby put forward as a inquirenda.http://www.zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2E6AB0F2-7227-4BDA-BA1C-3BA032B7A84D

introduction: the main purpose of accounting and financial reporting systems in the public sector is to provide sophisticated information to help managers play an effective role regarding accountability, and help them make sensible political, economical and social decisions. hence, this research investigates managers’ attitudes toward the quality of financial reports. methods: the current paper...

background:  multiple sclerosis (ms) is a chronic inflammatory and demyelinating disease of the central nervous system, which is accompanied by significant disabilities. although there are some published data regarding the epidemiological features of ms in other parts of iran, scarce data are available about the prevalence and demographic characteristics of ms in fars province. the current stud...