In developing countries, priority setting in the health sector traditionally focuses on the principal causes of mortality.More recently, the Global Burden of Disease approach incorporates assessment of morbidity and quality of life in identifying priorities. Yet, although investigations in various developing countries reveal that women are concerned by menstrual disorders, little attention is p...

objective: to study knowledge about reproductive health among female adolescents and to assess their treatment seeking behavior regarding reproductive health problems in an urban slum of mumbai. materials and methods: cross sectional descriptive study was undertaken in an urban slum area of mumbai for period of 3 months. all adolescent girls from 10 - 19 years of age, who had attained menarche,...

background routine screening for distress is internationally recommended as a necessary standard for good cancer care given its high prevalence and negative consequences on quality of life. this study attempts to support validation of distress thermometer (dt) in shiraz, iran and in the second step to investigate privilege/priority of dt over other referent criterion measures. material and meth...

background: various uterine disorders lead to infertility in women of reproductive ages. this study was performed to describe common uterine causes of infertility and sonographic evaluation of them for midwives.   methods:to study the literatures, manuscripts published at “pubmed”, “elsevier”, “google scholar”, “sid” and original text books, between 1985 and 2015, were carefully reviewed, using...

background: chest radiography is one of the most usual diagnostic tools for respiratory distress. objective: the purpose of this study is to assess the specificity, sensitivity and clinical value of chest radiography of neonates with respiratory distress.patients and methods: a descriptive- analytical study was conducted on 102 neonates that were in neonatal intensive care unit of imam reza and...

parapharyngeal abscess is a life-threatening disease. upper respiratory tract infection is the main cause in children. we present a 15-month-old boy admitted to the emergency ward with the chief complaint of difficulty in breathing caused by parapharyngealabscess. his condition deteriorated gradually, and he transferred to the operation theater quickly for abscess drainage and because of the di...

there is a lack of large, prospective epidemiologic studies concerning acute lung injury (ali) and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ards) in pediatric population. to determine the different causes of respiratory distress in children, we prepared a retrospective study and included the whole 567 children with respiratory distress referred to 17-shahrivar hospital, rasht, guilan. using their m...

BACKGROUND: Menstruation is a phenomenon unique to females and nearly universal experience in women's lives and is poorly understood. It is characterized by co-ordinate sequence of hormonal changes but the changes that occur in the distribution of hematological parameters, biochemical parameters have not been clearly established. AIMS: To compare Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR), Serum tota...