Leprosy is a neglected disease. The insidious onset of leprosy results in its late diagnosis and therefore the spread of the disease. Characterization of leprosy in areas with higher risk and collection of enough information about these spots to adopt more effective controlling measures are of great importance. In the present study, data for every patient who either referred to the health care ...

Background: The prevalence of opium addiction among Iranians is considerable. Since endogenous opioid systems may be altered as a consequence of addiction, it is very important to determine the plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of morphine in Iranian patients addicted to opiates who will undergo surgery.Methods: We obtained CSF and plasma samples from 50 volunteers with an established...

English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses are currently well-established university programs. These courses are run independently by English Language Teaching (ELT) instructors and content instructors without any collaboration. However, ELT instructors and content instructors do not receive the same level of collegiality and social support from the organizations and students. This paper probe...

appropriate application of graphics in textbooks of teaching persian to speakers of other languages (tpsol) could play an important role in the process of teaching persian to non-persian speakers. according to the theories of cognitive learning, visuals, if used properly, would have a greatly positive effect in learning; however, their erroneous application can have negative result. however, it...

BACKGROUND To extract utility values of diabetic retinopathy on a perfect health and perfect vision scales for Iranians with both types diabetes. METHODS In this investigation, 150 untreated patients with diabetic retinopathy consecutively were examined and interviewed in Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran, Iran, a tertiary referral center in the Iranian health care system. Utility values based on p...

this research studies different aspects of the islamic literature of iran by studying the impact of the holy qur'an and prophet's glorious hadith on the persian literature and variations of these impacts on the persian poetry and prose and delineates the deep effects of islam on the belief of the iranians, especially iranian poets; through; evidence from persian poetry and prose of ar...

BACKGROUND Fear of falling may be related to falling during stroke onset. The Fall Efficacy ScaleInternational (FES-I) with excellent psychometric properties, is an instrument developed to assess patients' concerns about fallings. The aim of this study was to determine validation of this scale in Iranian patients with stroke. METHODS The "forward-backward" procedure was applied to translate t...