background: reported data from developed countries showed that annually a high percentage of health budgets consume for controlling and treatment of complications in diabetes disease. early diagnosis of diabetes, education and health cares, not only prevent progress of disease and complications but also it is cost effective. methods: for gestational diabetes screening, all pregnant women attend...

background: perineal pain is a major morbidity in the first few days after delivery. this study aimed to investigate the effect of dry cupping therapy and acupressure at bl23 point on the intensity of postpartum perineal pain based on the short-form of mcgill pain questionnaire (smpq). methods: the present clinical trial was conducted on 150 subjects in 3 groups of 50  cases. after at least 4-8...

background: delivering the maximum dose to tumor while achieving the minimum dose delivery to normal tissue; is the most important goal in external radiotherapy. diode in vivo dosimetry is widely considered to be an important tool for quality improvement of patient care in external radiotherapy. uncertainty in dose delivery should fall within 5% of the prescribed dose as recommended by internat...

background: absolute dosimetry of external beam radiotherapy is carried out by the use of ionization chambers. these chambers must be calibrated at a standard dosimetry laboratory before any use in clinical dosimetry. the secondary standard dosimetry laboratory of iran (ssdl) has the duty of calibrating the ionization chambers used in radiotherapy centers in iran. materials and methods: the pre...