background: unintentional drug intoxication is still a major cause of mortality and morbidity in young children. method & materials: in order to study changes of epidemiological indices of children intoxication during a 10-year period in hamadan province, all cases admitted to ghaem hospital from 1995-1999 were recruited, and compared with all cases admitted to the same hospital from 1990-1994....

evidence provided from studies in iran points to a possible bias in application of the standard epi cluster sampling procedure, when carried out in populations with highly variant birth rates, tends to over-represent the low birth rate, i.e. higher socio-economic, strata, and if the entity under study shows significant socio-economic gradient, then the estimates arrived at by this method might ...

Hyperpigmentation over face in a neonate is rare and the differentials for the same are also rare. Congenital chickengunya, fungal and viral infections, drug rash are few differentials. Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) infection manifesting in neonates is very rare. The prevalence of the entity was described only recently. We describe a neonate with hyperpigmentation on day 3 of life with stormy cours...

a clinical and epidemiological comparison of the cutaneous leishmaniasis was carried out among 100 victims of cutaneous leishmaniasis who were living in the villages of isfahan area, and 100 other patients of the lesions have been determined and analyzed. comparison of patients of the city with that of neighboring villages shows that both type of cutaneous leishmaniasis are prevalent in isfahan...

hyperpigmentation over face in a neonate is rare and the differentials for the same are also rare. congenital chickengunya, fungal and viral infections, drug rash are few differentials. chikungunya virus (chikv) infection manifesting in neonates is very rare. the prevalence of the entity was described only recently. we describe a neonate with hyperpigmentation on day 3 of life with stormy cours...