BACKGROUND Scientific journals are the most credible and updated information resources for valid information in the various fields of science and technology. The present study investigates the status of Iranian scientific journals in disseminating medical information to the world of science. MATERIALS AND METHODS Total 163 Iranian medical journals accredited by national medical journals commi...

OBJECTIVE To assess the national prevalence of short stature, underweight, overweight and obesity in 6-year-old Iranian children before school entry. DESIGN Cross-sectional nationwide survey. SETTING Mandatory national screening programme before entrance to elementary school in 2008 in Iran. SUBJECTS All Iranian children entering public and private elementary schools. RESULTS The study ...

BACKGROUND The latest national census reports the population of Iranian children (1 - 8 years old) about 11 millions. On the other hand, the latest population policies approved by supreme cultural revolution council (SCRC) will make this population increase faster. Childhood development is one of the social determinants of health, of which "child's play" is a part. OBJECTIVES This study is an...

background: introduction of iranian national medical digital library (inlm) was a huge investment during several years ago. the aim of this study was to discover the effectiveness of this scientific intervention by examination of citation pattern among graduate dental thesis during before and after of inlm accessibility. methods: this analytical study was conducted among all of graduate dental ...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate the association of neck circumference (NC) with obesity to determine the sex-specific and age-specific optimal cut-off points of this measure in association with obesity in a national sample of the Iranian paediatric population. METHODS This survey on weight disorders was conducted among a national sample of Iranian children and adolescents, aged 6-18 y...

S urfing on the wings of time, days turned into weeks. Weeks turned into months. And, I found myself at a point to write you again—three months after the first issue of The IJOEM. Since then, many things happened: the Journal was welcomed by various healthcare professionals so that its Web site (www.theijoem.com and www. theijoem.org), received more than 60 000 hits almost three weeks after it ...

* Corresponding Author: Hamed Ekhtiari, MD Neurocognitive Laboratory, Iranian National Center for Addiction Studies, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Tel/Fax: 0098-21-55421177 E-mail: [email protected] Seyyed-Ehsan Parhizgar , Hamed Ekhtiari 1*