In order to identify the reasons for early weaning in Teheran, we interviewed 900 mothers using a systematic randomized sampling method. A total of 15% of the mothers were illiterate, 93% were housewives, and 97% had given birth in hospitals. Only 3% of the newborns benefited from rooming-in facilities in hospital, and 68% were bottle-fed while still in hospital. In 3.1% of cases the mother had...

Catalogue bilingue francais-persan de 114 objets, designes globalement comme aegyptiaca conserves dans les musees Teheran (71), Persepolis (18) et Suse (25). Le corpus rassemble des objets varies, certains deja bien connus mais surtout nombreux inedits sortis reserves ces musees, reunis en quatre categories, chacune introduite par une presentation qui s’averera particulierement utile pour l’ira...

the present article is to analyze the history of the two dutch companies were activate in the field of import and export. one of them is hotz & zoon that we would offer its managers' biographies alongside many of their original initiatives the iranian further developments owe them. then, the history of iran's first real department-store (the teheran toko) as well as three dutch retail...

Zusammenfassung Noch im Oktober 1961 konnte man den Eindruck gewinnen, dass die amerikanische Entschlossenheit, das „Amini-Experiment“ in Iran zu einem erfolgreichen Ende führen, ungebrochen ist. Im Anschluss an anglo-amerikanische Intervention zugunsten der Reformregierung schien tatsächlich ein neues, einigen Optimismus rechtfertigendes Verhältnis zwischen Ministerpräsident Amini und Mohammad...

this is a report of the first proved case of congenital toxoplasmosis in iran in an infant who died with hypothermia and lethargia 29 days after birth. both parents showed serological evidence of toxoplasmosis and, the finding in the mother indicated recent infection. the baby, during her short life, showed prominent neurological disorders and hepatosplenomegaly. toxoplasms were demonstrated in...

The prevalence of chlamydial genital infection was studied in 177 prostitutes in Iran; 100 in Teheran and 77 in the port of Bandar Abbas. Chlamydia trachomatis was isolated in eight (6.9%) of 116 patients with valid cultures. Type-specific antibodies were found against C trachomatis serotypes D to K (genital serotypes) in 94.2% and against serotypes A to C (trachoma serotypes) in 2% of the pros...

1Health Education Department, Faculty of Health, Baghyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. Received: 24/04/02; accepted: 10/12/02 ABSTRACT A cross-sectional study was carried out on knowledge of and attitudes to family planning in male teachers working in the education system in Teheran. We found that 65% of the study population had acceptable knowledge rega...