Disability is a part of human life. Almost all people temporarily or permanently will be impaired at some point in their life. Disability is a universal experience with economic and social costs to individuals , families, communities and nations (1). Disability results from the interaction between persons with impairments and attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinder their full and eff...

in first stage it must notice the identity cri sis as pathological approach to identity and if pathogenesis. factor s would be distinguished, it will be assumed as basis for remedy the problems. in the record of iran historical identity we must study a period of 170 years ago. iranian approaches to the western civilization based on two different methods: a)reject attitude. and b)terrified attit...

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...

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. Associated Professor of Emergency Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. [email protected] 2. Associated Professor of Emergency Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. [email protected] 3. Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicin...

The authors should thank the authors of letter entitled "Iran Hospital Accreditation system" for their criticisms. In response to this letter, which includes some criticisms about our letter entitled "The Accreditation of Hospitals in Iran", the following points can be made: The overall purpose of this letter was to look at the status of accreditation from the past to the present time and had o...

1Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran 2Faculty of Veterinary Science, Shahrekord Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran 3Department of Medical Genetics, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 4Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 5Departmen...

We read with great interest the article published by Hosseini et al.1 in October issue of Middle East Journal of Digestive Diseases. Briefly, in this article, authors concluded that furazolidone based therapeutic regimens (in moderate and even high-dose) were not preferable for first-line treatment against H.pylori infection among the northern population in Iran.1 Altogether, some points we fou...

1Department of Cardiac Anesthesiology, Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 2Department of Cardiac Surgery, Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 4Shahid Behes...

Caprine arthritis-encephalitis virus (CAEV) belongs to the lentivirus subfamily of retroviruses [1] which causes chronic progressive arthritis, pneumonia, and mastitis in adult goats and leukoencephalomyelitis in young kids [2,3]. Disease is widespread in populations of domestic sheep and goats throughout the world [4] and its high prevalence especially in industrialized countries (80-95% in th...