background: transfer and utilization of research evidence in health promotion have caught great attention in recent years. the objective of this study was to assess the factors affecting knowledge , attitude, and practice (kap) of researchers in golestan university of medical sciences (golestan, iran) regarding research knowledge transfer (kt) in 2010. methods and materials: in this cross-secti...

abstract background and aims: medical students are exposed to various infectious diseases during their clinical training period, including measles and rubella. in iran, to control the outbreaks of measles and rubella a mass vaccination campaign was conducted on 2003. the present investigation evaluates immunity to measles and rubella in a group of babol medical students and determines the preva...

introduction: medical students should be familiar with the end of life ethical issues and its considerations. for teaching end of life care to medical students, literature is a source of excellent narratives of patients with experiences of terminally ill condition in their journey through suffering and one of the most favourite bioethics literature readings has been the death of ivan ilych by t...

background: drug utilization evaluation (due) is an effective process in order to identifying variability in drug use and subsequent application of effective interventions for improving  patient outcomes. in this study, appropriate uses of drugs were evaluated by pharmacy service. methods : a prospective, interventional study was designed for determining frequency and type of clinical pharmacis...

during medical training, students obtain enough skills and knowledge. however, medical ethics accomplishes its goals when, together with training medical courses, it guides students behavior towards morality so that ethics-oriented medical practice is internalized. medical ethics is a branch of applied ethics which tries to introduce ethics into physicians’ practice and ethical decisions; thus,...

background: nowadays, quality of patient care is one of the major and important concerns of health care delivery which is extremely dependent on the medical staff. objectives: the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between quality of work life (qwl) and quality of patient care. methods: this study was a descriptive-analytic study based on correlation which was conducted i...

introduction:in this study, ecg signals have been embedded into medical images to create a novel blind watermarking method. the embedding is done when the original image is compressed using the ezw algorithm. the extraction process is performed at the decompression time of the watermarked image. materials and methods: the multi-resolution watermarking with a secret key algorithm developed in th...

hydatidsis is a zoonosis transmitted by domestic and wild animals. two distinct clinical presentations are as followes: unilocular of cystic hydatid disease and the more malignant form, called alveolar hydatid disease.this case report presents a patient who complained of chest pain and hemoptysis and his lung ct scan suggested solid tumor. he was found to have alveolar diseae which responded to...

a healthcare system has been the most important priority for all governments worldwide. biotechnology products have affected the promotion of health care over the last thirty years. during the last several decades, iran has achieved significant success in extending healthcare to the rural areas and in reducing the rates of infant mortality and increasing population growth. biomedical technology...

background and objectives: endophytic actinobacteria colonize inside the plant tissues without causing damages to the host plant. since these microorganisms colonize in the different parts of plants and can stop plant disease, they have been applied as biological agents for controlling human diseases. the aim of this study was molecular identification and measuring the antimicrobial activity of...