background: toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by the protozoan toxoplasma gondii. the aim of this study was investigate the prevalence of toxoplasmosis among young women who referred to check up for toxoplasmosis attended in shahid beheshti hospital, hamadan during 2013-2014. m aterials and methods: this study was performed on 2523 pregnant women who referred to laboratory of shahid b...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Encephalitis can cause a severe public health problem. The main aim of this research was to evaluate the medical laboratory results of patients with Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) encephalitis. MATERIALS AND METHODS Diagnosis of encephalitis for these patients was firstly based on a clinical profile for Herpes Simplex Encephalitis (HSE), plus either a detected HSV1&2-DNA...

patients and methods this cross-sectional study was performed on 1202 ms patients in farshchian hospital, hamadan, in 2013. all patients were diagnosed with definite ms. a questionnaire was used to gather information; demographic characteristics, medical history, signs and symptoms at onset, course of disease, relatives with ms, and degree and type of relationship were recorded. conclusions the...

background: there was not documented evidence of toxoplasma infection in hamadan previously, but a brief report of isolation of a t. gondi strain from a turkey that it had high virulence to mice. in order to study of toxoplasma infection in the at risk population and to determine seropositivity in this target population, women aged 15 to 45 years, a study carried out in hamadan. methods: a tota...

BACKGROUND Hamadan Province is one of the high-risk regions in Iran for Multiple sclerosis (MS). A majority of the epidemiological studies conducted in Iran addressing MS are descriptive. This study was conducted to assess MS and its associated risk factors in Hamadan Province, the west of Iran. METHODS This case-control study compared 100 patients with MS (case group) and 100 patients with a...

OBJECTIVES Limited research has been undertaken on suicide in developing countries. This paper aims to investigate characteristics of suicide attempts in Hamadan district of Iran. METHODS A prospective study was conducted in all university hospitals in the Hamadan district of Iran and patients admitted for attempted suicides were included. All cases were assessed by psychiatrists and visited ...

BACKGROUND Prostate cancer is the fourth most common cancer worldwide and is the second most lethal cancer. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate psychological predictors of prostate cancer screening behaviors among men over 50 years of age in Hamadan. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was carried out on 200 men over 50 years of age in Hamadan, west of Iran. Par...

BACKGROUND Cryptosporidium is a protozoan parasite causes cryptosporidial diarrhea, which is typically a short-lasting benign infection, but can become severe and non-resolving in immunocompromised individuals. The aim of the present study was to determinate the prevalence of Cryptosporidium infection in livestock and humans that were in contact with livestock in Hamadan district, Iran. METHO...