Article history: Received 16 January 2011 Received in revised form 10 October 2011 Accepted 17 October 2011 Available online 25 October 2011 China's fiscal arrangement in the 1980s has preserved local governments' incentive but the 1994 fiscal reform recentralized revenues. Since then, farmers' tax burdens have risen steeply and become a major challenge to the state legitimacy. How to account f...

BACKGROUND AND AIM Gestational trophoblastic disease (GTN) is one of the high-risk forms of pregnancy that requires a lot of attention in terms of research studies, considering its incidence and the importance of the disease in advanced form. The aim of this study was to investigate the risk factors and clinical procedure of patients with gestational trophoblastic disease from 2001 to 2002. M...

Background: Benzene has been classified as group 1 human carcinogens in the environment by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) mainly because of its ability to cause acute myeloid leukemia (AML). This study was conducted to detect any probable association between urban benzene pollution concentration and occurrence of AML in different regions of Tehran.  Methods: In thi...

Case report Our patient is a boy 9.5 years old who has AD, vernal conjunctivitis, persistent rhinitis and asthma and is sensitized mainly to dust mites. His AD exists since infancy but became more intense since 3 years old. In 2010 he used intense moisturizing treatment and high-potency topical corticosteroids both pro actively and on demand and under these conditions his SCORAD levels were 21-...

The 50th anniversary of the Centre Postgraduate Medical Education (CMKP) was celebrated in 2021. Since beginning, School Public Health (SZP) has been inseparable linked with CMKP. Throughout this period, position SZP director held by eight persons i.e. Bogusław Kożusznik (1971 to 1977), Marek Sanecki (1978 1991), Andrzej Wojtczak (1991 1996), Jerzy Leowski (1996 2003), Janusz Opolski (2003 2004...

The original version of this article unfortunately contained the following mistakes. 1. Below the title and in biography, an author's name Congbing Li is spelled incorrectly. 2. In the biography of Kentaroh Katoh, Since 2011, he has been a member of Tsuruoka National College of Technology. –> Since 2011, he has been a member of National Institute of Technology, Tsuruoka College. He is currently...

The death of one patient with secondary purulent bronchopneumonia has led the authors to recommend prophylactic treatment with sulfonamides and penicillin. Many and important changes have been introduced in the field of influenza during the past 5 years, and it is therefore unfortunate that the authors were compelled to defer publication for so long a period. Within the scope of slightly more t...