INTRODUCTION Cancer diagnosis is an extremely stressful experience that has a profound impact on a patient's life. Cancer related perceived stress and complications may lead to the experience of positive psychological changes and post-traumatic growth (PTG). Since there is lack of qualitative research assessing the experience of PTG in Iranian women with breast cancer, this study aims to invest...

BACKGROUND Nutritional deficiency, bleeding, and inflammation are three main causes of anemia. On the other hand, erythropoietin (EPO) production, iron availability, and a healthy bone marrow are essential for erythropoiesis. Recently, recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) has been used to treat the patients already taking iron supplements. In Iranian traditional medicine literature, much ha...

Cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus (CYSDV) is a destructive virus of cucurbits in Iran. During 2008-2012 growing seasons a total of 366 cucurbit samples including melon, cucumber, snakemelon and squash with typical symptoms of CYSDV infection were collected from ten Provinces in Iran. They were screened by ELISA and the infectivity of ELISA-positive samples was confirmed by RT-PCR. The res...

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE To compare the scores from the Iranian version of the Frontal Systems Behavioral Scale (FSBS) with the norms collected for the American, English-speaking population and to examine the ability of the FSBS to discriminate between acquired brain injury and addiction. RESEARCH DESIGN Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and post hoc Bonferroni tests. METHODS AND PROCEDUR...

Shirin Nosratnejad, Elham Shami. Department of Health Services Management, School of Management and Medical Informatics, Iranian Center of Excellence in Health Services Management, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran. (*Corresponding author); MSc of Health Services Management, Faculty of Management and Medical Informatics, Iranian Center of Excellence for Health Management, Tabr...

In part one of this article I reviewed the history of Asclepius and the Caduceus of Hermes as medical symbols and made a tentative suggestion of using the mythical bird Simurgh as an Iranian symbol of medicine. In this, the second part, I shall describe the evolution of the myth of the Simurgh and discuss the medical relevance of this bird in Iranian history.

Prof. Mohammad Mehdi Feizabadi, Editor, Iranian Journal of Microbiology Prof. Giovanni M. Giammanco (as representative of the colleagues of the Sections of Hygiene and Microbiology at the University of Palermo). Prof. Reza Ranjbar (as representative of graduated Iranian fellows and students who were under supervision of Prof. Caterina Mammina). Professor Caterina Mammina, 1957-2016 Volume 8 Num...

This text was already posted on the TREAT-NMD website. Neuromuscular disorders represent a growing area of interest in Iran, a vast country with a population of 77 million characterized by its great ethnic variety and high consanguinity rate. The second Iranian congress of neuromuscular disorders and electrodiagnosis was held during 4-8 July 2012 in Tehran and was supported by the Iranian Neuro...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis viruses are one of the most important concerns in the patients on hemodialysis who are at high risk for blood-borne infections. GB virus C (GBV-C)/hepatitis G virus (HGV) is positive-stranded RNA virus with global distribution, which codes structural and nonstructural proteins (such as NS3). OBJECTIVES Review on literature about Iranian HGV isolates showed that there was ...