With the development of the use of complementary medicine in the world and especially in Iran, more attention is increasingly being given to different schools of natural medicine. One of the schools in which hygiene and treatment is the centre of attention is that of the Iranian Traditional Medicine. Fortunately, this is being given considerable attention by Iranian authorities. One of the diff...

In parallel with previous years, in this issue we are going to present a critical appraisal on submitted article to Iranian Journal of Public Health in 2015 and report a short report on the destination of these articles in terms of rejection, acceptance , publication etc. In addition, this editorial will compare the trend of whole publication process during 2012-2015. The total number of manusc...

Background Among manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals, randomized controlled trials (RCTs) form the backbone of evidence-based medicine. Hence, their protocol should be designed rigorously and their results should be reported clearly. To improve the quality of RCT reporting, researchers developed the CONSORT Statement in 1996 and updated it in 2010. This study was designed to assess the...

BACKGROUND Leucorrhea or vaginal discharge is a conventional complaint. It is generally whitish, yellowish, or greenish vaginal discharge in females that might be normal or a symptom of infection. It is almost mucus discharge, which exhibit exfoliation of vaginal epithelial cells due to estrogen influence on the vaginal mucosa. It is important to identify the differences between physiologic and...

UNLABELLED Restriction of free submission of Iranian manuscripts is not a new matter. However, the recent political decision of the USA Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Department of the Treasury saying who can and who cannot publish scientific papers in journals is completely against free distribution of data in scholarly and scientific communities and scientific journals and publicatio...

dietary notifications have been introduced recently for alzheimer disease (ad). in iranian old medical manuscripts, there are some nutritional recommendations related to nesyan (ad equivalent). the aim of this article was to compare dietary recommendations of iranian traditional medicine (itm) with novel medical outcomes.1) searching for dietary recommendations and abstinences described in itm ...

Similar to previous years, Iranian J Publ Health, faced tremendous amounts of articles submitted from different countries in addition to its homeland country, Iran in 2013. After 42 yr successful publishing the Journal, the format of circulation changed to Monthly in 2012 which continued without even one day delay throughout 2013. A glance on data related to different aspects of Journal proceed...