This Viewpoint discusses initiatives of the US Food and Drug Administration’s Oncology Center Excellence to address COVID-19-related challenges faced by patients with cancer health care professionals who provide treatment.

conclusions in the initial treatment, it seems necessary to supervise and monitor the treatment process through staff in addiction treatment centers together with the company of the addicts’ families to reduce relapse rate. results the relapse rate was 30.42%, mean and median of the time to relapse (survival time) were 27.40 ± 1.63 months (ci 95%: 24.19 - 30.60) and 25 ± 2.25 months (ci 95%: 22...

human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (hiv-1) protease inhibitors comprise an important class of drugs used in hiv treatments. however, mutations of protease genes accelerated by low fidelity of reverse transcriptase yield drug resistant mutants of reduced affinities for the inhibitors. this problem is considered to be a serious barrier against hiv treatment for the foreseeable future. in this st...

abstract background: the introduction of antiretroviral therapy has caused a remarkable decrease in the occurrence of diseases and mortality among hiv‑positive patients, while this success has not been achieved among injection addicts due to a low adherence to antiretroviral medicine. this study aims at clarifying the important factors affecting adherence to treatment in addicts suffering from ...

drug and poison information centers have a critical role in fulfillment of rational drug use programs. the loghman-hakim drug and poison information center (lhdpic) has been established in 2006. the main mission of this center is to provide accurate, unbiased and upto- date information on medications and poisons for the health care team and the public. this center has received more than 9000 te...

background: as a major responsibility, health authorities must control rational prescription of drugs (rud). a way to analyze the regional status of drug prescription is the who’s recommended indices. the purpose of the study was to determine the status of drug prescriptions in pharmacies of healthcare centers under the authority of tehran university of medical sciences based on the who indices...

the ministry of health, treatment and medical education of iran has recently announced an estimated figure of 200,000 injecting drug users (idus). the aim of this study was to pilot a national program using demographics, types of drug abuse and prevalence of blood-borne infections among idus.in order to elicit data on demographics, types of drug abuse and prevalence of blood-borne infections am...