| Rhodococcus equi is a soil actinomycete responsible for severe respiratory disease in young foals leading to high mortality. The organism is also emerging as an important pathogen in immune-compromised humans. Intracellular localization of R. equi makes therapeutic management very difficult and prolonged lasting up to three months. Presently no suitable vaccine and effective serological test ...

Subclinical prostate cancer is common in men >50 years of age. Population-based screening of men aged between 55 and 69 years, using prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing, has been evaluated in randomised trials [1, 2]. After a median follow-up of 13 years, the European screening trial demonstrated a relative reduction in the risk of prostate cancer mortality of 21% (29% if adjusted for non-c...

Estimation of the time since death in the early post mortem period is performed by analysis of the supravital signs and the early signs of death. Using several methods for determining the time since death increases significantly the preciseness and reliability upon estimation of the time since death. The objective of this paper is to find a way for faster and more simple estimation of the time ...

background: perinatal mortality rate is an important indicator of community health status. this study aimed to evaluate perinatal mortality and its determinants in mobini hospital of sabzevar, iran. methods: this descriptive, cross-sectional study was performed within a two-year (2011-2012) period at mobini hospital of sabzevar. our study population included all the cases of stillbirth and live...

Background & aim: Child marriage, which defined as a formal marriage or informal union before the age of 18 years, occurs widely throughout the world. Child marriage directly impacts girls’ education, reproductive and sexual health, as well as psychological well-being. In this regard, the current review was conducted to examine the reproductive and sexual health consequences of child marriage. ...

in this work, we tried to know something more about the embryotoxicity effects of the doses of 50, 200, 400 mg/kg/day of ranitidine of (h2 antihistaminic agent) by intraperitoneal administration on mice. the studies were performed on albino mice kept under specific conditions and a constant dark-light cycle at 24+1c and 55+5% relative humidity. generally, the animals were acclimatized for four ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of a family history of premature death, cardiovascular death in particular, on the risk of early cardiovascular disease. BACKGROUND Studies suggest that fatal cardiovascular events and less severe cardiovascular diseases may co-occur in families. Consequently, a family history of premature death may indicate a familial cardiac fra...

background: aluminum phosphide or rice tablet is one of the most common pesticides which leads to accidental or intentional acute intoxication and finally death. in this paper, we describe a successful management of intoxication with rice tablet in a young girl. case presentation: a 14-year-old girl was admitted due to consumption of rice tablet. gastric washing with two vials of sodium bicarbo...

BACKGROUND To determine whether initial reactive oxygen species (ROS)-induced endothelial cell injury is involved in early death after paraquat intoxication and concentrations of angiopoietin-1 (Ang-1), angiopoietin-2 (Ang-2), and von Willebrand factor (VWF) reflecting endothelial cell injury, we investigated the initial endothelial cell injury marker involved in the pathogenesis of death withi...

AIMS The risk of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) death in early type 1 diabetes onset was assessed using death certification data. METHODS The Yorkshire Register of type 1 Diabetes in Children and Young People was linked to clinically validated death certification data for those diagnosed under 15 years. Standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) were calculated using the England and Wales population...