western and eastern populations of goitered gazelles are separated by zagors mountains as a barrier. bordering iraq, western population has suffered from drastic decline during and after iran-iraq war. presently, there are small numbers of the goitered gazelles left in the region with no clear understanding of their taxonomic status. it has been normally assumed that there should be a differenc...

The number of people living with HIV is increasing in the eastern Mediterranean region and the world (1) but still the coverage of anti-retroviral therapy in the region is very low (1). In Iran, there are many observed gaps in the process of HIV testing, treating and retaining cascade (2). Iran has a long way to achieve the goals published by the UNAIDS fast-track, accordingly, by the year 2020...

Over the last decade, a few cases of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) have been reported in some districts of the province of Golestan, in north-eastern Iran. The aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of Leishmania infantum infection among humans and domestic dogs by using direct agglutination test (DAT) and PCR assays in the eastern zone of the province. Between 2011 and 2012, ...

persian dari is a language which has been used not only by the people of madain and western cities on the coast of arvand river but also by the people in eastern cities like balkh and marv . nevertheless most of the researchers of persian language or literature are trying to prove that dari has been a limited language or a dialect of persian belonged to some eastern districts of iran and it has...

Corresponding author: Fahimeh Mianji Division of Social & Transcultural Psychiatry, McGill University, Canada. Address: 1033 Pine Avenue, Irving Ludmer Psychiatry Research and Training Building, Room 134, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 1A1 Tel: 15143987302 Fax: 15143407503 Email: [email protected] Zār is the term used to describe a form of spirit possession common in northern African, easte...

Unlimited and mostly competing demands in health care systems even in developed societies, always force decision makers to choose among the priorities for allocation of resources. However, recent developments in health technology assessment (HTA) have created a better opportunity for allocation of limited resources available in health care systems. Although this tool has been used more frequent...

BACKGROUND Low birth weight (LBW) is considered as a major multifaceted public health concern. Seventy-two percent of LBW infants are born in Asia. An estimation of 8% LBW infants has been reported for Eastern Mediterranean region including Iran. This study investigated contributory factors of LBW in singleton term births in Tehran, Iran. Tehran is a multicultural metropolitan area and a sample...

This is the first genetic biodiversity study of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Iran. Thus, we investigated the genetic patterns of strains isolated in the first survey of anti-tuberculosis drug-resistance by rpoB gene as part of the Global Project of Anti-tuberculosis Drug Resistance Surveillance (IAU, Iran). A 411-bp fragment of the rpoB gene, containing the sequence of the 81-bp rpoB fragment,...

For the last decades Iran has been playing significant role in Middle Eastern politics. Tehran’s rooted involvement Arab’s political environments provokes tensions and hostilities Arab-Iranian relations. The author believes that historical legacy of interactions still determined some important characteristics In this article investigates nationalism national building process Arab countries Iran...