Sulfur mustard (SM) is a toxic chemical agent that belongs to a class of vesicant compounds. In the 1980s it was used by the Iraqi army against Iranian forces. Sulfur mustard severely irritates the skin, eyes and lungs. The highest side effects seen in patients affected by this gas are pulmonary complications including different types of lung diseases such as bronchiolitis. It has also led to a...

The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing personality traits among athletic Iranian and non-Iranian students studying at Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin. 280 athletic Iranian and non-Iranian students (130 Iranians, 40 Syrians, 80 Afghans, and 30 Yemenis) were picked using Stratified Random Sampling method, and they completed NEO-FFI (a shortened form of revised bi...

conclusions by intensive monitoring of the situation of substance abuse among soldiers, commanders can reduce modifiable predictors of suicidal attempt. results the majority of soldiers with mean age of 21.8 (sd = 2.4) years were single (82.1%), employed (54.5%) and had a low level of education or were illiterate (71.1%). in total, 296 (7.5%) soldiers had suicidal attempts in their military ser...

Sakineh HajEbrahimi, Ali Janati, Edris Hasanpoor, Morteza Arab-Zozani, Mobin Sokhanvar, Fariba Pashzadeh, Elaheh HaghGoshyie. Professor of urology, Iranian EBM Centre of Excellence, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Associate professor of Healthcare Management, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Management (IceHM), Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran; Ph.D...

Since the events of 9/11, the official line of most Western governments has been that the fight against Islamist terrorism is not a fight against Islam itself. Strategically, there are a number of reasons for this — successful intelligence cooperation with Muslim majority governments, civilians in Muslim countries such as Iraq and Afghanistan and in the West itself is seen as crucial for Suppor...

NOT all-and perhaps very few-of those who have joined the Army Emergency Reserve or the Territorial Army are aware of the long train of events which has gone to make these forces what they are today. Each has a long and honourable history and before coming to a description of their medical services it is desirable to know something of their evolution. In brief, then, the Army Emergency Reserve ...

versity, Frankfurt am Main. Originally more than 100 abstracts were submitted to the conference, from which 36 were selected for oral presentations and 19 for poster presentations. A number of contributors to the conference subsequently submitted their papers for publication in this issue of Orientalia Suecana, and after the reviewing process, the seven papers below were finally selected for pu...

The physician's acquittal has obsessed Iranian legislator's mind to a large extent. This is exclusively observed in Iranian statuses and specifically in Shi'ite school of though. Muslim jurists' opinions play a very important role in enacting legal articles related to it. After reviewing the literature, the authors tried to pick and collect common features of physician's responsibilities and du...

Objective: This study aimed to provide a normative study documenting how 114 five-seven year-old non-‎patient Iranian children respond to the Rorschach test. We compared this especial sample to ‎international normative reference values for the Comprehensive System (CS).‎ Method: One hundred fourteen 5- 7- year-old non-patient Iranian children were recruited from public ‎schools. Using five chil...

From the Division of Psychiatry and Neu­ roscience, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Silver Spring, MD (C.W.H., D.M., J.L.T., A.L.C., C.A.C.); and the Deployment Health Clinical Center and Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Washington, DC (C.C.E.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Hoge at the Division of Psychiatry and Neuro­...