Weight velocities of 136 infants who died from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) were compared with those of 136 controls matched for sex, birth weight, and type of feeding. It was found that the SIDS infants gained weight more slowly overall and that the differences were significantly different for infants who were not breast fed in the last two weeks in which it was possible to estimate the...

background and objective: injuries have been identified as one of the most important causes of disability and death in humans, and children are more vulnerable to injuries than adults because of limitations in the detection of risk. the present study aimed to investigate the children aged 1 to 59 months death due to injuries cases in the area covered by the shahid beheshti university of medical...

background ecstasy or 3-4, methylenedioxymethamphetamine (mdma), as an amphetamine derivate, could lead to learning and memory impairment. objectives as the hippocampus is responsible for learning and memory, herein we evaluated acute and chronic effects of mdma on the structure of the hippocampus. materials and methods male wistar rats (200-250 g) received single or multiple injections of mdma...

Introduction The family interview to request donation is one of the key stages of obtaining organs for transplantation. The donation interview before to brain death (DIBBD) is done in two stages: in the emergency room or hospital ward, with prior notification of the existence of a severe neurological injury with a fatal short-term prognosis and which is dismissed surgery or ICU admission or whe...