en 1994, 125 carcases of camel (100 from isfahan and 25 from yazd) in slaughter - houses were studied for parasitic infections. seventy percent of the camels were infected with hydatid cyst and half of the males (50%) had testicular filaria identified as dipetalonema evansi. all the infected male camels except 3, demonstrated sheathed rnicrofilariae in their peripheral blood smears. although so...

Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty Education and University Isfahan, Iran.

Designing a social responsibility assessment model with network data envelopment analysis approach (Case study: public hospitals in Yazd province)

*Corresponding author: Dr. Alaleh Gheissari, Isfahan Child Growth and Development Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Ed ito ria l Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: Recently, the term renal angina (RA) has been described to straighten using biomarkers in at-risk patients who have a combination of...

Background: Low birth weight (LBW) is one of the major determinants of neonatal survival as well as postnatal morbidity. Objective: The main objective of the present study was to determine neonatal mortality rate (NMR) in LBW infants in Yazd, Iran. Materials and Methods: In a prospective-cohort study, all births in the maternity hospitals of Yazd, Iran in 2004 were evaluated and mortality rate ...

BACKGROUND Skin cancers are the most common cancers around the world. Cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) is the malignancy of melanocytes that are mainly located in the skin and mucous membranes. OBJECTIVE This study tried to evaluate the incidence and mean survival time of cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM) in Yazd, Iran. It seems that the epidemiology and clinical aspects of CMM in Iran are...

BACKGROUND Yazd province which is the host of local and foreign immigrants may be faced with contacting malaria. Plasmodium falciparum malaria remains a major cause of mortality throughout in the tropical regions of the world. Pthophysiologic mechanisms of anemia in malaria is such as direct invasion of Red cells, anemia of chronic disease hypersplenism, Hemophagocytic syndrome and erythrophago...

M. Kargarfard1, A. Shariat2, E. Lam3, B. Shaw4, I. Shaw4,5 and A. Shariat6 1Department of Sport Physiology, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran 2Department of Occupational Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University Putra, Malaysia 3Department of Health and Human Performance, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA 4Dep...

S. Javad Hashemifar,1,2 Peter Kratzer,2 and Matthias Scheffler3 1Department of Physics and Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Institute, Isfahan University of Technology, 84156-83111 Isfahan, Iran 2Fakultät für Physik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, D-47048 Duisburg, Germany 3Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, D-14195 Berlin, Germany Received 3 September 2010; revised manuscript ...