Several guidelines for dental practice have been published by associations and regulatory boards since the beginning of pandemic. Initially, all non-emergency treatment were suspended. Healthcare personnel around world are gradually expanding back to elective procedures. International updated recommendations alert that professionals must maintain regular observation local health department repo...

OBJECTIVE To identify the socio demographic, life style and foot examination related predictors of diabetic foot and leg ulcers with a view to develop a screening tool appropriate for the use in an outpatient setting. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This cross sectional study included type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) patients; 88 subjects with leg and foot ulcers and 80 non ulcer controls. Socio dem...

BACKGROUND To compare the skin and breast/cervical cancer prevention/screening practices of adult siblings of childhood cancer survivors with controls and to identify modifying factors for these practices. METHODS Cross-sectional, self-report data from 2,588 adult siblings of 5+ year survivors of childhood cancer were analyzed to assess cancer prevention/screening practices. Two age, sex, and...

OBJECTIVE Nonimmune pregnant women are at risk of developing congenital rubella syndrome and measles complications. We aimed to identify pregnant women susceptible to rubella or measles in order to determine the need for immunity screening and supplemental immunization in women of childbearing age. METHOD This seroprevalence survey was conducted by convenience sampling in obstetric hospitals ...

background: heat stress is one of the most important consequences of occupational heat exposure worldwide. current heat stress indexes are not suitable for heat strain screening in developing countries due to their inherent and applied limitations. a new observation and subjective screening method is required that needs no instrument. in this study, a scale is developed based on the most import...

background & aim: preeclampsi which is a common and important disorder in pregnancy is one of the three leading causes of maternal mortality. it is worthy to find out an appropriate screening test for it. this study aimed to assess serum hematocrit level as a screening test for preeclampsia. methods & materials: using a randomized stratification, 660 women who were in the 24-28 weeks of gestati...

background: hypoglycemia is one of the most common neonatal disorders, associated with severe complications. there has been a great deal of controversy regarding the definition and screening of hypoglycemia. therefore, in this study, we aimed to determine a cut-off value for blood glucose level in glucometer readings. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted on 238 newborns at risk of ...

Background and objectives: Alzheimer's disease (AD) as a neurodegenerative disorder is the most common form of dementia in the elderly. According to the amyloid hypothesis, accumulation of amyloid beta (Aβ) plaques, which are mostly constituted of Aβ peptide aggregates, triggers pathological cascades that lead to neuronal cell death. Thus, modulation of Aβ toxicity is the hopef...

OBJECTIVE To explore the literature regarding prevention of depression in the workplace. METHOD Literature review of what the author believes are seminal articles highlighting workplace factors and interventions in preventing depression in the workplace. RESULTS Employees can help prevent depression by building protective factors such as better coping and stress management skills. Employees...

Several animal models have been used for the study of mechanosensory hair cells and hearing loss. Because of the difficulty of tissue acquisition and large animal size, these traditional models are impractical for high-throughput screening. The zebrafish has emerged as a powerful animal model for screening drugs that cause and prevent hair cell death. The unique characteristics of the zebrafish...