LAHORE: Pakistan Association of Medical Editors (PAME) organized its Second National Conference at University of Health Sciences Lahore from April 26th to 27th 2014 which attracted over three hundred fifty delegates and participants including two invited guest speakers from Iran i.e. Prof. M.B. Rokni Editor Iranian Journal of Public Health and Iranian Journal of Parasitology from Tehran Univers...

Parasites and parasitic diseases have been prevalent in Iran according to Iranian ancient scholars and physicians' inscriptions dating back to 865-1496. Some protozoan diseases such as malaria and cutaneous leishmaniasis have been introduced by clinical manifestations and helminthic infections by size and morphology of the worms. Scientific studies of Parasitology started in Iran from 1833, fir...

aSchool of Medicine, Shiraz University of medical science, Shiraz, Iran. bSchool of Advanced Medical Sciences and Technologies, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. cNamazi hospital, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Copyright © 2017 by School of Pharmacy Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences and Health Services Iranian Journal of Pharmaceutical Rese...

Fereshteh Farhadi, Simin Taghavi, Hossein Alikhah, Mohammad Naghavi-Behzad. Students’ research committee, Iranian Evidence Based Medicine Center of Excellence, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Women’s Reproductive Health Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Department of Emergency Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran;...

BACKGROUND Few studies have systematically investigated insomnia in adults with epilepsy. METHODS We performed a prospective cross-sectional investigation of the prevalence, severity, and comorbidities of insomnia in 90 adults with epilepsy using a battery of self-reported instruments and polysomnography. We quantified insomnia severity using the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI). RESULTS Fifty...

exposure to high dosages of sulfur mustard (sm) can cause bone marrow depression, immune system suppression, impairment of the immune functions, and eventually results in diseases due to secondary immune disorders. in this article, we have studied the effects of this poison on iranian veterans by analysis of related published studies. in a systematic search, the effects of sm gas on iranian vic...

This text was already posted on the TREAT-NMD website. Neuromuscular disorders represent a growing area of interest in Iran, a vast country with a population of 77 million characterized by its great ethnic variety and high consanguinity rate. The second Iranian congress of neuromuscular disorders and electrodiagnosis was held during 4-8 July 2012 in Tehran and was supported by the Iranian Neuro...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the features of Iranian nursing journals, specifically the subject areas used in articles, study designs, sampling methods, international collaboration of Iranian nursing scholars, specialty and academic rank of authors, and the most frequently contributing academic institutions in articles. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to analyze the content of the ar...

Trauma Research Center, Baqyiatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Iranian Red Crescent Medical Center, Tehran, IR Iran Nephrology and Urology Research Center, Baqyiatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Corresponding author: Behzad Einollahi, Nephrology and Urology Research Center, Baqyiatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran. E-mail: behzad.e...

    Objective(s): Citation tracking is an important method to analyze the scientific impact of journal articles and can be done through Scopus (SC), Google Scholar (GS), or ISI web of knowledge (WOS). In the current study, we analyzed the citations to 2011-2012 articles of Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences (IJBMS) in these three resources.   Material and Methods: The rel...