purpose: to evaluate the range of accommodation lag and it's signs and symptoms in 20-25 year-old female students at zahedan medical school, iran. methods: three-hundred female students were enrolled for assessment of accommodation. after exclusion of individuals with individuals with accommodation disorders in 3 steps including amplitude of accommodation, accommodative facility, and relat...

An important argument in favor of the encyclical theory of the epistle to the Ephesians is based upon the peculiarities found in the epistle itself. Yet these unusual features (e.g., the lack of personal greetings, the unusual statements in 1:15, 3:2, and 4:21, etc.) can all be satisfactorily explained in the light of an original Ephesian destination. After an examination of early scribal habit...

It is apposite as we approach the third millennium, and celebrate the beginning of a third century of medical care in the Royal Victoria Hospital, that we consider the place of the "third phase of medical care" both now and in the future. This was the term applied by Howard A. Rusk to rehabilitation in the period immediately following the Second World War'. Rusk is regarded as the pioneer of me...

The huge complexity and variety of deficits in children, their continuous development, and co-operation simultaneously with children and their parents make clinical practice in pediatric neurorehabilitation particularly challenging. Thus scientists and clinicians still look for newer, more efficient diagnostic and therapeutic tools. One of them is robot-mediated pediatric neurorehabilitation. H...

central venous catheter (cvc) insertion is a practical way to assess patients hemodynamic specially in cardiovascular surgery but this relatively simple junior level procedure is not risk free and its common reported complications include; pneumothorax, hydrothorax, hemothorax, local hematoma, cardiac tamponade, vascular injury, thrombosis, embolism, and catheter disruption. here in this articl...

results of a seven year (april 1985 to march 1992) prospoective study of bacterial meningitis in 189 infants and children admitted to our center indicate that: 1) tiie gram-negative bacilli, especially klebsiella species, are the leading cause of bacterial meningitis in neonates and young infants (

abstract [1]   background and objective: the recent studies showed that the prevalence of psychiatric disorders and neurological soft signs in aggressive persons and murderers are more than general populations. the aim of this study was to determine the frequency of prisoners’ neurological soft signs (nss) and its association with crime subgroups in rudsar prison. methods: in a cross sectional ...