1 Pneumococcal Research, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, 2 Allergy and Immune Disorders, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, 3 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 4 Menzies School of Health Research, Darwin, Australia, 5 Allergy and Immunology, Royal Chil...

mice following surgical induction of osteoarthritis + Little CB, Barai A, Burkhardt D, Smith SM, Fosang AJ, Shah M, Thompson EW +Raymond Purves Laboratories, University of Sydney, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, NSW, Australia; Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Royal Childrens Hospital, Parkville, Vic, Australia; St Vincents Institute of Medical Research, F...

at is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by early onset progressive cerebellar ataxia, oculocutaneous telangiectasia, bronchopulmonary, lymphoid tumors, immunodeficiency and chromosomal instability. the defective gene is atm (at mutated) localized in chromosome 11q22-23. at patients are at risk of cancer, which is the second cause of death in this disease. iranian at patients have ma...

The physician's acquittal has obsessed Iranian legislator's mind to a large extent. This is exclusively observed in Iranian statuses and specifically in Shi'ite school of though. Muslim jurists' opinions play a very important role in enacting legal articles related to it. After reviewing the literature, the authors tried to pick and collect common features of physician's responsibilities and du...

BACKGROUND The Iranian healthcare system is primarily an insurance based system. This structure has an important influence on the efficiency and equity of the provision of healthcare in Iran. This paper reviews the history of the Iranian healthcare system and the impact of the Iranian health insurance system on healthcare performance based on the results of interviews with key opinion leaders a...

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...

I read with interest a nice paper by Zidan et al. about viral hepatitis as etiology of hepatocellular carcinoma in Iran and the world (1). They have presented useful information. However, maybe these comments can add some more information specifically about the Iranian literature. They have searched some databases. However, other useful sites like Scientific information Database (SID), Iranian ...