Reduction of Mortality Rate Due to AIDS When Treatment Is Considered

Valuing Reduction of Risk of Mortality Due to Traffic Accidents

Background and Aim: The trade-off between monetary wealth and fatal safety risks is explained by the value of statistical life, an efficient tool widely used to evaluate projects and allocate appropriate resources for road safety. The objective of this study was to estimate the statistical significance of life in order to improve road safety in the city of Ardabil, Iran. Materials and Methods:...

Increasing Rate of Mortality Due to HIV/AIDS in Iranian Children: An Alarm for Health Policymakers

In the recent decade, substantial reductions in child mortality rate occurred in both developed and developing countries. However, these achievements are now being threatened in many developing countries by the emerging of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, such that the decline in trend of child mortality rates has decreased in some countries and begun to reverse direction in others (1). In Iran, more tha...

Reduction of false positives in structure-based virtual screening when receptor plasticity is considered.

Structure-based virtual screening for selecting potential drug candidates is usually challenged by how numerous false positives in a molecule library are excluded when receptor plasticity is considered. In this study, based on the binding energy landscape theory, a hypothesis that a true inhibitor can bind to different conformations of the binding site favorably was put forth, and related strat...

Correction to: Relationship between Air Pollution and Mortality Rate due to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases in Mashhad, Iran

Correction to: Relationship between Air Pollution and Mortality Rate due to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases in Mashhad, Iran     Narges Ghorbani1, Jamshid Yazdani-Charati2,  Siavash Etemadinejad3, Nasrin Ghorbani4   1 PhD Student in Biostatistics, Student Research Committee, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 2 Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics,...

When should surgery be considered for the treatment of epilepsy?