oral cancer has emerged as a significant cause of global public health concern in both developing and developed nations. multiple socio-demographic and habit-related risk factors have been attributed to causing oral cancer. a diverse array of challenges exists in the global campaign to address the burden of oral cancer. such challenges have served as barriers to the early diagnosis and treatmen...

background: this study aimed to explore the experiences of iranian women regarding the barriers to and facilitating factors for cervical cancer screening. methods: eight focus groups (n= 86 participants) were conducted with women referred to a health center in karaj, iran from january to march, 2007. purposeful sampling was used. married women aged 18 years old and over, not suffering from obst...

background: sputum smear examination is the basis of diagnosis of tuberculosis and quality control for the correct diagno­sis of tuberculosis is necessary. this study was a method survey and performed with 930 smears with the aim to compare the confidence rate of sputum smear examination reported by one laboratory technician with the findings reported by two techni­cians in a tuberculosis scree...

breast cancer is the leading cause of malignancy among women. screening using mammography is proposed as an effective intervention for reducing early deaths due to breast cancer. we conducted a systematic review to assess the cost-effectiveness of such screening programs. we searched medline, scopus and google scholar and complemented it by other searches using sensitive search terms from 1993-...

background and objectives: brucellosis is a zoonotic disease and it’s still endemic in iran. there are some reports regarding brucellosis infection in family members sharing same risk factors and remain unrecognized. however , few studies on the importance of family screening are available. we aimed to screen household members of index cases with acute brucellosis for detecting additional unrec...

evidence acquisition an electronic search of available literature published was conducted in all peer-reviewed journal indexed in pubmed, scopus and google scholar. the literature search was done among articles related treatment of hepatitis c with daas in different patient groups with mass screening of the patients and cost benefit of new treatments as main key words. results there are major s...

in several parts of the world, important yield losses are caused to faba bean due to attack by the black bean aphid aphis fabae scopoli. although resistance could be a good alternative to chemical control, its genetic basis is still largely unknown; and its phenotypic expression is still poorly described, making crucial the permanent evaluation of genetic resources available in different countr...

background and objectives: the main aims of this study have been finding out the antibacterial activity and preliminary phytochemical screening of some fern species. methods: the antimicrobial activity of the methanol extracts of polypodium interjectum shivas, polystichum woronowii fomin, polystichum aculeatum (l.) roth., dryopteris affinis (lowe) fraser-jenk, athyrium filix-femina (l.) roth, a...

Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) may lead to irreversible mental retardation. To prevent the complication, screening was conducted routinely for all neonates in Iran. This study aimed to evaluate the appropriateness of CH screening programs in Fars province, southern Iran. This retrospective study (February–May, 2017) was conducted in the Health System Research Center of Shiraz University of Medi...

background: syphilis is an infectious disease caused by treponema pallidum and transmitted via sexual contact, infected discharge and blood as well as vertical transmission. it causes various impacts on women during pregnancy and their newborns which results in various complications. thus, screening of syphilis is routinely performed during pregnancy. choosing to perform a specific screening te...