effective clinical care requires nurses to obtain the capability of putting the research findings into application. during the recent years, evidence-based nursing (ebn) has proved itself as a way for health care and therapy based on new findings being used in clinical care practices. however, studies show that nurses have problem in evidence-based practice application the most of which reveals...

background: irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) with chronic abdominal pain and changes in bowel habits in the absence of any organic cause is identi_ed as the most common known gastrointestinal disorder. ibs affects both sexes and can occur at any age. diagnosis of this disease in younger patients and women is more likely. in the pathophysiology of ibs, hereditary, environmental, visceral, psycholo...

â  â  avicenna’s role in arabic literature â  â  nasrollah shameli * â  hamid ahmadian ** â  â  abstract â  â  the master and doyen, avicenna, is one of the prominent savants of the fourth century a.h. besides medicine and philosophy, he was a master in sciences of his time, and was proficient in arabic literature. he has peerless anthologies in poetry and prose, in both arabic and persian li...

altered glycosylation of proteins in cancer cells is one of the main processes responsible for anaplasia, invasion and metastatic potential of neoplastic cells. lectins are nonimmunogenetic compounds which specifically detect certain terminal sugars of glycoconjugates. the aim of the present study was to identify the n-acetylgalactosamine (galnac) containing glycoconjugates in cancer cells in a...

“hedayat al-motealemin fi teb”, written by abobakr ebn ahmad akhaveini in the fourth century, (ah) is his only book left to the present time. from historical prospective, it is, by far, the first medicine book written in farsi. today, there are only three copies of the book kept in badlyan libraries of oxford, fateh library of istanbul and malek library of tehran. the reviews done on the three ...

Review of the clinical scenario You are a diabetes specialist nurse who, along with podiatrist colleagues, runs a foot care clinic for people with diabetes. A patient presents at the clinic with a full thickness plantar foot ulcer without any sign of arterial disease. The patient is enthusiastic to try an artificial skin replacement as she has read about them on the internet. You are unfamiliar...