Objective: To study the socio-demographic factors, medical history, histological type, hormonal status with different ethnic groups of Pakistani breast cancer patients.
 Study Design: Cross-sectional analytical study.
 Place and Duration Study: Medical Oncology Department Jinnah Postgraduate Centre, Karachi Pakistan, from Aug -Nov 2019.
 Methodology: Two hundred female patients a...

Background Globozoospermia is a rare but severe teratozoospermia disorder which causes male infertility. Total globozoospermia is diagnosed by the presence of 100% roundheaded spermatozoa lacking an acrosome in semen analysis. Recent studies have shown that in large majority of globozoospermic patients, deletion of a 200 kb segment including the DPY19L2 gene occurs. Among all the genes in this ...

To visualize the structure of Iranian chemistry scientific publications in SciSearch, 43 Iranian and International chemists were identified. They were the highly cited scientists in 7682 Iranian chemistry publications (defined as an article with at least one Iranian author address) indexed in Science Citation Index during the period from 1990 to 2006. Co-citation data for these authors from the...

Background: The transtheoretical model (TTM) is used as a framework to implement smoking cessation programs. This model has some subscales based on which the smoking temptation scale is proposed as stages movement factor. This study aimed to translate and validate the temptation subscales of the TTM questionnaire in the Iranian population. Methods...

Due to the existence of different races and ethnicities and their different life styles, anatomical structure of people vary from one region of the world to another. The goal of this study is to determine the anterior femoral bowing to length ratio, which can be useful for planning major medical and therapeutic projects as well as designing medical equipment (including nails, orthoses and prost...

this essay aims to put forward a new explanation of “sârt” problem from an iranian viewpoint. its main focus is to represent those signs which could be helpful to introduce sârt people as inheritors of old iranian culture of central asia. to attain this purpose it has been organized in four parts; the first part discussed with the history of russia’s rule over the region and its dealing with in...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to evaluate gender differences in depression scores of Iranian and German medical students. METHODS Two hundred Iranian medical students (100 men and 100 women) and 200 German medical students (100 men and 100 women) were selected randomly and completed the English form of the self-rating Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). RESULTS Analysis gave a mean rating of 10.7 ± 6....

In Iran, the number of published articles has increased significantly in the basic and applied sciences including medicine and its subspecialties during the recent years. The present study reviewed Iranian science production in medicine, focusing on Iranian medical journals and assessing the current status of Iranian medical journals in several information databases. The study revealed that onl...