today many cities around the world are subject to the risks and damages caused by the natural disasters. every now and then, the world witnesses natural disasters at various degrees of severity, leading not only to human casualties and destruction of homes, but also to displacement of many people.  on average, three million people are driven out of their homes every year due to natural disaster...

OBJECTIVES This study examined personality, coping styles, and psychosomatic characteristics and their relationships in bereaved and non-bereaved earthquake survivors. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. METHODS A survey was conducted with a sample of 102 non-bereaved survivors and 79 bereaved survivors from Mianyang, Anyang, and similar districts 2 weeks after Wenchuan earthquake. Survivo...

Background: With the increased survival rates following the treatment of childhood cancer, it becomes equally important that the need for evidence based surveillance of long term effects of cancer therapy is addressed. This includes the risk of development of metabolic syndrome features like obesity, altered lipid and sugar profile, which was attempted in the present study. Materials and Metho...

background: methanol poisoning is one of the most important poisoning due to drinking of illegal and non-standard alcoholic beverage in some countries. relatively limited studies have been carried out to identify the prognostic factors in methanol poisoning. materials and methods: we performed a retrospective study on acute methanol-intoxicated patients, which were admitted on the loghman hakim...

Aim This study was designed to investigate the factors affecting the prognosis in neonates with congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) who were treated in our clinic. These factors included prenatal lung-head ratio (LHR), prenatal stomach and liver presence in the thorax, blood gases in the first 24 h and the modified ventilation index (MVI). Material and methods The study was carried out retr...

Abstract Purpose Little is known about cancer survivors’ perceptions of the prognostic impact physical activity (PA) and association between PA. Therefore, present narrative review aimed to identify survivors' PA, perception barriers, with Methods A literature search was performed via PubMed Scopus terms including “physical activity”, “cancer survivor”, “perception” in November 2022. Inclusion ...

BACKGROUND Hyperglycaemia is associated with adverse outcomes in the intensive care unit, and initial studies suggested outcome benefits of glycaemic control (GC). However, subsequent studies often failed to replicate these results, and they were often unable to achieve consistent, safe control, raising questions about the benefit or harm of GC as well as the nature of the association of glycae...

BACKGROUND The number of childhood cancer survivors has dramatically increased and consequently, an increasing number of survivors may now wish to conceive. Recently, several studies have described that previous treatment with abdominal radiotherapy may increase the risk of adverse pregnancy outcome. METHODS We conducted a retrospective single centre cohort study of childhood cancer survivors...

Introduction: Although several coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) studies have focused on the biomedical and epidemiological manifestations of the COVID-19 virus, there is a dearth of studies that have reported the experiences of COVID-19 survivors. This study investigated the physiological and psychological experiences of COVID-19 survivors and the quality of care that they rec...

Background The impact of cancer therapy on the reproductive potential of patients is increasingly recognized because survival rates of patients have clearly improved in recent years. The study stressed the use of AMH may allow better prediction of chemotherapy-related risk to further fertility. MaterialsAndMethods A narrative review was performed within articles published at PubMed, Elsevier, S...