venereal diseases are still a common problem in today’s world. even though tremendous advances are being made in medicine and large budgets are being spent to control sexually transmitted diseases (stl), especially in western countries. these diseases are still yet very common, and today aids has been added to the threats posed by std to human life. the status of syphilis was evaluated in iran ...

giant cell fibroma (gcf) was described as a new entity of fibrous hyperplastic soft tissue. it seems that stimulus from an unexplained origin can have a role in its etiology. histopathologically gcf is consisted of multinucleated fibroblasts that have oval shape nuclei within the eosinophilic cytoplasm. surgical excision is the treatment of choice and recurrence is very rare. here we report a c...

health reforms that emphasize public health and improvements in primary care can be cost-effective measures to achieve health improvements, especially in developing countries that face severe resource constraints. in their paper “shanghai rising: health improvements as measured by avoidable mortality since 2000,” gusmano et al suggest that shanghai’s health policy-makers have been successful in...