BACKGROUND Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a systemic and inflammatory disease of unknown etiology which is mostly characterized by inflammation of the synovial joints. Studies have proved that most people with RA avoid doing physical activities due to fear that it may worsen the pain or cause pressure on joints, resulting in decreased muscle strength and ultimately leading to disability of patien...

sleep and dream in hafez' divan   m. komeili* vali asr university of rafsenjan abstract sleep and dream are two prominent features which are frequently mentioned in divan, so they are worth studying here. hafez, in two hemistichs, artistically and concisely refers to the similarity of death and sleep which is reminiscent of one of the holy prophet's (pbuh) hadiths. hafez allots the be...

one of the subjects that researchers are agreed on is hafez acquaintance to music and sing. extensive studies have been conducted on musical terms in hafez works; there are some words in his poems that are surrounded by a musical halo, however theirlexical meanings are still considered through the context of the poems, but nobody can get a profound understanding out of hafez’s artistic elegance...

the cheshmeh hafez polymetal deposit is located in troud – chahshirin mountain range in southeastern damghan. in this province, the volcanism and associated mineralization are closely related to major faults anjilo and troud with nw-se trend. the exposed rocks in the study area consist of volcano clastic sequence of sandstone, tuff, volcano breccias and mostly andesitic and andesitic- basalt fl...

1Department of Community Medicine, Sari Medical School, Sari, Islamic Republic of Iran (Correspondence to N. Motamed: [email protected]). 2Department of Biostatistics, Shiraz School of Public Health, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. 3Department of Community Medicine, Shiraz Medical School, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran. Received: 24/03/03; accepted: 18/02/04 ABSTRACT To assess the validity...

Zoonoses Research Center, *Research Center for Social Determinants of Health, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences, Jahrom, Health Policy Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Student Research Committee, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Mohamed Amin Ghobadifar, Farideh Pourghashdar*, Armin Akbarzadeh, and Zahra Mosal...

Shiraz Faculty of Medicine was officially inaugurated in 1952. Indeed, it replaced the former "Medical Auxiliary Training School" (Amouzeshgah-e Alee Behdari Shiraz) that was founded in 1946. The school was intended to run a four-year course, the so-called Behdar training. The graduates of the Medical Auxiliary Training School were allowed to work only in small areas with population of less tha...

BACKGROUND Preeclampsia is a pregnancy multisystem disorder of unknown etiology. It is a significant cause of maternal and fetal morbidity and mortality. OBJECTIVES Due to the significant role of magnesium in physiological regulation of blood pressure, this study was conducted to measure the level of magnesium in pre-eclampsia and control groups since the beginning of the pregnancy. MATERIA...

Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran Herbal and Traditional Medicines Research Center, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran Department of Ophthalmology, Student Research Committiee, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran Research Center for Non-Communicable Diseases, Jahrom University of Medical Sciences,...

OBJECTIVE This case-control study was performed to compare the pregnancy outcomes of women aged 40 years and older with those of 20- to 30-year-old women. MATERIALS AND METHODS Among 28,507 women who delivered in the Zeinabieh and Hafez hospitals affiliated to Shiraz University of Medical Sciences between September 2001 and October 2004, 574 women (2.01%) were 40 years old or older at the tim...