BACKGROUND Despite the potential deleterious impact on patient safety, environmental safety and health care expenditures, the extent of unused prescription medications in US households and reasons for nonuse remain unknown. OBJECTIVE To estimate the extent, type and cost of unused medications and the reasons for their nonuse among US households. METHODS A cross-sectional, observational two-...

This paper studies the problem of removing unused arguments from logic programs which have been constructed by a schema-based method. Our schemabased method constructs logic programs semiautomatically. These programs have clear structure which depicts the design decisions that have been taken for their construction. On the other hand, these programs have unused arguments. We propose a method th...

conclusions hepatocyte isolation can be performed as the main and initial step for cell transplantation from unused/rejected liver. it is the first experience in iran. results highly quality hepatocytes with high viability and low contamination were isolated. the mean viability was 71.8% ± 21.7. in the first 4 cases microbial contamination by staphylococci, diphtheroid and klebsiella was detect...

High Throughput Computing systems (HTC) enable otherwise idles cycles to be available to computations that involve many independent tasks. In a Distributed Computing environment, distributed ownership of computing resources is the major obstacle HTC has to overcome to take advantage of under-utilized systems in the network. This paper addresses HTC and how it fits in current parallel and distri...

conclusions wheat germ extract seems to be an effective treatment for dysmenorrhea and its systemic symptoms, probably because of its anti-inflammatory effects. results pain severity decreased only in the wheat germ extract group (p < 0.001) and there was no statistically significant change in the placebo group. in the wheat germ extract group, the pain severity decreased from 4.701 at baseline...

background: owing to the growing importance of medicines in treatment of diseases, as well as their role as alternatives for expensive and often unsafe procedures; economic examination of factors associated with their demand is necessary. hence, this study aimed at exploring factors affecting the demand of specialty medicines.   methods: in this descriptive-analytic study, data was collected fr...

background: hot flashes are the most common symptoms experienced by women around the time of menopause. many women are interested in herbal medicines because of fear of side effects of hormone therapy. objective: the aim of this systematic review was to assess the effectiveness of iranian herbal medicines in alleviating hot flashes. materials and methods: medline (1966 to january 2015), scopus ...