The Suez Canal: Past Lessons and Future Challenges

Malnutrition : Future Challenges and Lessons from the Past

Occupational safety and health in Europe: lessons from the past, challenges and opportunities for the future.

Europe has always played a key role in the field of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) and can be considered the cradle of Occupational Health. The European policy framework has been set since the establishment of the European Union, but its strength lies in the enactment of the Framework Directive on Occupational Health and Safety (89/391/EC), which has had a strong positive impact on the as...

Stem Cells: Lessons from the Past, Lessons for the Future

The beginning of the search for stem cells was the bombing of civilian populations in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the first use of nuclear weapons in which humans were the target. In retrospect those people who did not die from the blast or the fire but died with the lowest dose of lethal radiation, and the longest time from radiation to death, were those that had destruction of sufficient amounts ...

Mizaj past, present and future

Temperament (Mizaj), as an individual factor, has great importance in traditional medicine and its use in diagnosis and treatment of diseases, as well as the individual lifestyle is very common. Since medicine moves toward Personalized Medicine, the root of individual differences will find its position in different aspects of medicine in early future. In traditional medicine, temperament is ...

Challenges of Iranian Environmental Health during the COVID-19 Epidemic: Lessons for the Future

Emerging and communicable infectious diseases are one of the major public health challenges that adherence to the principles of primary health care can prevent the rising of morbidity and mortality in communities. This study investigates the environmental health challenges of Iran in Covid-19 epidemic as an emerging infectious disease. Insufficient readiness of the health system, delays in qua...