Report of the First Meeting

A report about the first meeting on the role of intensive care units nurses in emergencies and disasters in Iran

According to the human consequences caused by emergencies and disasters, the health system especially hospitals, are among the first places that are influenced by this events. Continuity of service provision by hospitals after emergencies and disasters is one of the important issues that should be taken into consideration by all people and authorities. For hospitals, it is necessary to promote ...

The Secretary of the First Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Slum Upgrading Working Group

Esophageal and cardia cancers summit: report of the first meeting.

ancers of the esophagus (squamous cell carcinoma and adenocarcinoma) are among the most deadly cancers with a five-year survival of less than 10%. Esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) is decreasing rapidly in western countries and adenocarcinoma rising significantly. Gastric cancer (GC) epidemiology is changing as well, with distal GCs decreasing and proximal GCs, especially at the cardia ...

Meeting report on the first Sino-Dutch symposium on oncology.

On October 31, 2015, the first Sino-Dutch symposium on oncology was organized in Guangzhou (China). The symposium revealed similarities between Chinese and Dutch efforts to improve the care of tumor patients and to create enhanced insight into the nature of cancers. In particular, it became evident for some types of cancer that immunotherapy should focus on counteracting interleukin-17-associat...

The First Report of Lymphocutaneous Sporotrichosis

A 55 years old male farmer was referred to the Medical Mycology Department, School of Public Health, Tehran University with an ulcerative lesion on his left index finger and nodular lesions along the lymphatic of the left hand.  The Patient explained that he had been injured by a wire entanglement,in the site of lesion, about one year before.  Direct microscopic examination of the biopsy materi...