Editorial: Do clinical services need to take conduct disorder more seriously?

Addiction Studies in Iran Neuroscientists Need to Do More

Ramadan fasting: Do we need more evidence?

Over a billion of Muslims fast worldwide during Ramadan each year. Through this religious custom, fasting contributes to their health as well as their spiritual growth. However, available evidence regarding the health-benefits of Ramadan fasting is scarce and highly contentious. Although Islam exempts patients from fasting, many fast conceivably, and their clinical condition is prone to deterio...

Let’s take Laser safety seriously

Nowadays laser is extensively used in various industrial, communicative, medical, and other fields. Using laser in medicine has enabled physicians to perform the most accurate and finest operations within few minutes. Non-observance of safety points during laser performance could be seriously harmful for the medical staff and the patient. Therefore, in order to prevent the possible damage of th...

ramadan fasting: do we need more evidence?

over a billion of muslims fast worldwide during ramadan each year. through this religious custom, fasting contributes to their health as well as their spiritual growth. however, available evidence regarding the health-benefits of ramadan fasting is scarce and highly contentious. although islam exempts patients from fasting, many fast conceivably, and their clinical condition is prone to deterio...

It’s Time to Take This Method Seriously

The common phenomena of white-coat and masked hypertension have established the need for assessing blood pressure (BP) out of the office, particularly using 24-hour ambulatory monitoring (ABPM). In the last 2 decades, evidence on the usefulness of the alternative method for out-of-office BP assessment, namely home BP monitoring (HBPM), has accumulated, and guidelines on using this method have r...