Invited reply to ''The death knoll for the MMSE: has it outlived its purpose?''.

An Anthropological Study of Death and Funeral Ceremony with focus in Gilan Province

A rite of passage is a ritual event that marks a person's transition from one status to another, including birth, coming-of-age, marriage and death. One of the rite of passage is funeral and its Rituals .A funeral is a ceremony for honoring, respecting, sanctifying, or remembering the life of a person who has died. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture...

Brain death and transplant organs from the perspective of jurisprudence, ethics and law and its impact on medical education

Introduction: One of the issues facing humanity and it is the death. The fundamental change is defined as death from medical community. And with regard to organ transplantation and its association with brain death, The main question is whether brain death as death is certain? The purpose of this study is the basis of brain death and medical education on this topic. Methods: : This study is a l...

A Problem in Avicennas View on the Origination of the Soul and a Reply to It

Administration of Magnesium Sulfate to Women with Premature Labor: The Effect on Bleeding Time

Dear Editor, I read with interest the article by Yazdani, M, et al, on the administration of magnesium sulfate to women with premature labor and its effect on the bleeding time, published in the Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences.1I found it interesting but I would like to make some points regarding to this study:There are several methods for the measurement of bleeding time (BT). Those includ...

Lessons for Public Administration: Historical Collapse in Iran

Iranian civilization is one of the oldest and most influential civilizations of history, and Iran as the origin of Persian civilization, has been ruled by numerous states throughout history. Some of them, while enjoying considerable glory and high level of economic and political power, have sometimes been declined and finally overthrown. Having these points in mind, the main questions are prese...