In a recent issue of the journal, you published an article about enhancing nursing students’ transition to workplace. The author mentioned that during transition, nurses frequently encounter role conflict, marginalization and burnout. These problems may lead to job dissatisfaction, intention to leave their job and also may interfere with quality of care they provide (1). In another article in t...

In Iran, department of forensic psychiatry is one of the special units of Legal Medicine Organization concerned with individuals who demonstrate psychological and psychiatric problems. The duties of forensic psychiatrists in the department are, performing psychiatric examinations and determining mental competence of two major groups of referrals: Individuals who are involved in a legal problem ...

This report describes a 23 year-old male florist gardener diagnosed with subcutaneous sporotrichosis caused by the dimorphic pathogenic soil fungus Sporothrix schenckii. The patient had several small skin lesions over the left upper arm with ascendant chains of enlarged lymph nodes.Sporothrix schenckii was detected from clinical samples by direct microscopy and culture and its ability to switch...

This study tries to define the incidence, survival, and risk factors of childhood cancer in Iran. A literature review on published articles was conducted by using different search engine from November 1974 to October 2008. The incidence rate of childhood cancer in Iran was 48 to 112 and 51 to 144 per million among girls and boys in multi geographical settings, respectively. The most common canc...

BACKGROUND The Islamic Republic of Iran, in her 20 year vision by the year 2025, is a developed country with the first economic, scientific and technological status in the region, with revolutionary and Islamic identity, inspiring Islamic world, as well as effective and constructive interaction in international relations. Enjoying health, welfare, food security, social security, equal opportuni...