background: to assess the therapeutic effects of oral zinc supplementation on acute watery diarrhea of children with moderate dehydration. methods: all 9-month to 5-year-old children who were admitted with acute watery diarrhea and moderate dehydration to the children ward of motahari hospital, urmia, iran in 2008 were recruited. after the application of the inclusion and exclusion criteria, th...

multiple sclerosis (ms) is a complex polygenic disease in which gene-environment interactions are important. a number of studies have investigated the association between tumor necrosis factor-α (tnf-α) -308 g/a polymorphism (substitution g→a, designated as tnf1 and tnf2) and ms susceptibility in different populations, but the results of individual studies have been inconsistent. therefore, per...

BACKGROUND Reduction of gross diarrhea rate in excess of that seen over time with intravenous therapy and appropriate antibiotics is not usually achieved by oral glucose-electrolyte rehydration therapy for cholera and cholera-like diarrheas. METHODOLOGY AND PRINCIPAL FINDINGS This prospective randomized clinical trial at a tertiary referral hospital in southern India was undertaken to determi...