General assembly of the national "Respiratory Disease Research Network" (RDRN) was held in April 2011 with the participation of pulmonologists and head of research centers working on respiratory illnesses and other stakeholder including representatives from non-communicable disease office in the ministry of health, scientific societies, non-governmental organizations, and etc. Iran Ministry of ...

August 2016 Dr. Jaroslaw Jarzabek explores military spending increases across G.C.C. states to illuminate the drivers for military expansion and spending in the region, and the relevance of these issues in a global context. The type of weaponry that is commonly purchased by G.C.C. states is not geared toward counterterrorism, but rather to external threats, largely emanating from Iran. While G....

Watermelon chlorotic stunt virus (WmCSV) is a bipartite begomovirus (genus Begomovirus, family Geminiviridae) that causes economic losses to cucurbits, particularly watermelon, across the Middle East and North Africa. Recently squash (Cucurbita moschata) grown in an experimental field in Oman was found to display symptoms such as leaf curling, yellowing and stunting, typical of a begomovirus in...

Background and Objectives Cryptococcal meningitis is one of the main opportunistic infections associated with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Despite the present and increasingly availability of specific treatment for cryptococcosis, the mortality rate of this infection is still high, particularly in patients with advanced immunsupression and advanced cryptococcal diseases. Mate...

Background and aims: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the most important causes of death and disability in Iran. Stroke is a serious cardiovascular situation which poses many problems for both patients and societies. Considering the pleiotropic effects of statins and their safety, particularly in low doses, as well as the increasing trend of stroke in Iranian populations, the economic eva...