health impact assessment (hia) is a relatively young field of endeavour, and hence, future progress will depend on the planning, implementation and rigorous evaluation of additional hias of projects, programmes and policies the world over. in the june 2014 issue of the international journal of health policy and management, fakhri and colleagues investigated underlying principles of hia through ...

Recent trends in biomedical technologies have been associated with increasing discussion about ethical aspects of the new knowledge in many societies, including the Islamic Republic of Iran. Medical ethics has a long history in our country, and great Iranian physicians laid special emphasis on teaching and practising traditional ethics. In recent decades, great strides have been made in biomedi...

1Department of Physiology, Qom Branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, IR Iran 2Department Of Biology, Qom branch, Islamic Azad University, Qom, IR Iran 3Department of chemistry, Qom branch, Islamic Azad university, Qom, IR Iran *Corresponding author: Ramesh Ahmadi, Department of chemistry, Qom branch, Islamic Azad university of Qom, 15 Khordad St, Qom, IR Iran. Tel:+98-2537780001, Fax:+982137770...

We carried out a cross-sectional study with cluster random sampling to study the status of wife abuse in Esfahan from April to July 2002. We interviewed 386 married women using a standard questionnaire. Mean age was 35.7 years (range 15-78 years). Prevalence of wife abuse was 36.8%; incidence was 29.3%. Types of abuse included inattention to wife's feelings 44.8%, threatening to prevent communi...

BACKGROUND Training in internal medicine has significantly evolved alongside the development of science, technology and new facilities during the past fifty years. After the specialty of internal medicine, there are multiple subspecialty training programs which have started since 1985 in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In this manuscript we want to define the characteristics of the gastroenterolo...

ON 6 November 2003, the International Court of Justice delivered its long-awaited judgment in Oil Platforms (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America). The judgment raises important issues relating to both jurisdiction and the law governing the use of force. By way of background, the Court was seised of a claim by Iran and a counterclaim by the USA alleging breaches of their 1955 bi...

Title 1 Observing Motor Learning Produces Somatosensory Change 2 3 4 Nicolò F. Bernardi1,2, Mohammad Darainy1,3, Emanuela Bricolo2, David J. Ostry1,4 5 6 1 McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, H3A 1B1 7 2 University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy, 20126 8 3 Shahed University, Tehran, Iran, Islamic Republic of Iran 9 4 Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, 06511 10 11 Corresponding author 1...