the therapeutic value of kids’ artistic activities has always attracted experts and medics’ attention. it has a lot of usages in obtaining peace of mind and health in children. art therapy is a new and organized way in solving social and mental problems and disorders that can lead to improvement, especially in children. school anxiety can be seen and reduced, in artistic activities, as a sign o...

introduction: early diagnosis and appropriate treatment is required in esophageal cancer due to its invasive nature. the aim of this study was to evaluate early post-esophagectomy complications in patients with esophageal cancer who received neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (nacr).   materials and methods: this randomized clinical trial was carried out between 2009 and 2011. patients with lower-th...

background: post traumatic stress disorder (ptsd) in war veterans has been linked with symptoms in their children, including symptoms resembling those of the traumatized parents, especially aggression. this study aims to examine the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral group therapy in reducing aggressive behaviors of male adolescents whose fathers have war related ptsd. method: 36 male childr...

background and purpose: due to adverse effects of cancer on children's mental health, relaxation, chemotherapy side-effects and positive effects of music therapy on stress, this study was performed with the goal to determine the effect of music therapy on children's stress after chemotherapy. methods: the present study is a randomized clinical trial done on 32 children undergoing canc...

background: management of intracranial aneurysms has made debates about the best treatment modality in recent years. the aim of this study was to compare the interventional outcomes between two groups of patients, one treated with endovascular coiling and the other treated with surgical clipping. methods: this prospective study included 48 patients with intracranial aneurysms who underwent endo...

background atopic dermatitis (ad) is a chronic inflammatory skin disease. phototherapy is considered as an effective treatment modality in severe cases. objectives in this study, we proposed to evaluate the efficacy of bath puva (psoralen plus ultraviolet a) in the treatment of severe and atopic dermatitis. patients and methods twenty-eight patients with severe atopic dermatitis were included i...

to achieve tight glycemic control in diabetic patients, it may be necessary to introduce insulin therapy much earlier in the disease course. poor glycemic control is a risk factor for the development of diabetic complications. many patients require insulin therapy after several years of disease in order to maintain good glycemic control and prevent complications. but many patients do not receiv...

in the last few years, a lot of preclinical studies showed the therapeutic potential of stem cells in spinal cord injury (sci). neural stem cells (nscs) can be differentiated into all cell types of spinal cord. nscs are cells that maintain the capacity to differentiate into brain-specific cell types, and may also replace or repair of injury in central nervous system. here in, we describe the ef...

temporomandibular disorders (tmd) are clinical conditions characterized by pain and sounds of the temporomandibular joint (tmj). this study was designed to assess the effect of low-level laser therapy (lllt) on healing of osteoarthritis in rats with tmd.thirty-two male wistar rats (250-200 g) were housed in standard plastic cages. after injection of complete freund's adjuvant into the tmj, rats...