health economists look towards health care sector as a market whereby there is a distinct demand and supply phenomenon exists. dearth of regulation of the doctors' practices lead to inappropriate and unjustifiable demand for health care among the patients. in developing and under-developed countries, this adverse practice may push a poor family into a vicious circle of poverty and illness, espe...

background: the definitive endoderm (de) differentiation using the undefined media and non-human feeders can cause contaminations in the generated cells for therapeutic applications. therefore, generating safer and more appropriate de cells is needed. this study compared five different methods to establish an appropriate method for inducing an efficient de differentiation from human induced plu...

abstract background: chemotherapy- induced nausea and vomiting (cinv) occur frequently causing problems with an unacceptably high incidence that significantly affect patients' daily functioning and health-related quality of life. the present study was aimed to compare acute cinv for granisetron as 5-ht3 receptor antagonist and metoclopramide in the patients receiving chemotherapeutic regimens i...

background the aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of ginger and glibenclamide on oxidative stress markers. oxidative stress is caused by an unbalance between a relative overload of oxidants and depletion of antioxidants, as implicated in the pathogenesis of several chronic diseases, including atherosclerosis and diabetes mellitus. regarding the role of oxidative stress in th...

aphasia is prevalent in people following stroke, which can have a significant impact on the quality of life of the patients with stroke. one of the new methods for treatment of patients with aphasia is constraint‑induced aphasia therapy (ciat). the aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of ciat on naming deficits in individuals with chronic aphasia. this study had a prospective, sing...

introduction and objectives: tuberculosis (tb) still remains a major health concern both in developing and developed countries. the rate of the liver injury due to anti-tb drugs in developed countries has been reported up to 4%. the goal of this study is to assess the rate and risk factors for anti-tuberculosis drug-induced liver injury (dili). also, a model has been designed to predict dili in...

background: we sought to compare the effectiveness and safety of sublingual versus vaginal misoprostol for the termination of pregnancy with a live full-term fetus. methods: this randomized, triple-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial was performed on 200 primiparous women with normal, singleton, full-term pregnancies candidated for the induction of labor. sublingual and vaginal tablets con...

background: constraint induced movement therapy is one of the new therapeutic interventions that limits the performance of intact upper limb with increased use of the affected limb. aim of this study was to investigate the effects of  modified constraint induced movement therapy on weight bearing & protective extension in children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy. methods: 21 hemiplegic children ...

objective: to explore the context, experiences and pathways of seeking abortion care among married women in a minority dominated urban slum community in mumbai city of india. materials and methods: a mixed-method study was conducted using a systematic random sampling method to select 282 respondents from the slum community. one fifth of these womenreported undergoing at least one induced aborti...