The Islamic Republic of Iran has a long history of medicine. The principles derived from core Islamic teachings provide a comprehensive moral, ethical, and legal framework for the practice of medicine. The issue of brain death has significant impact on the procurement of organs from cadavers. It is a major subject of debate and interest to bioscientists, legal experts, religious scholars, and t...

Iran and blogging. Most of us, when encountering the relationship between the two, would probably think about conservatism and the extent of repression in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Arrests of some prominent Iranian bloggers, such as Hussein Derakshan, popularised through the Western media would also spring to mind. But not many of us would know that Persian is one of the most used languages...

Shervin Amiri , Nasser Ojaroudi , Mohammad Ojaroudi 3 1 Scientific Member of Electrical Engineering, Department of Iranian Research Organization for Science and Technology (IROST) Tehran, Iran, [email protected] 2 Faculty of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran, Iran Tehran, Iran, [email protected] 3 Young Research Club, Ardabil Branch, Islamic A...

A cluster random sample of 1073 students in the Islamic Republic of Iran (mean age 14.37 years) completed a self-report questionnaire consisting of an exercise measure, selected constructs of Pender's health promotion model and an assessment of stages of behaviour change in exercise. In multivariate discriminant analysis, exercise self-efficacy, perceived barriers to exercise, perceived benefit...

MD, Corresponding author, academic member, Iranian Institute for Encyclopedia research, Department of Medical Sciences, MSRT, Allameh Tababataei University, Tehran, Iran, PO Box 19615-866, E mail: [email protected] MD, Faculty of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. MSc, Special Medical Center, Tehran, Iran MSc, Biology Department, Science and Research Branch, Islami...

1School of Iranian Traditional Medicine Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 2Research Institute for Islamic and Complementary Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3Tabriz Liver and Gastrointestinal disease research center, Tabriz, IR Iran 4Department of Pharmacognosy, School of Pharmacy, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehr...

Trauma Research Center, Department of Anesthesia, Baqiyatallah Medical Sciences University, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran We read with interest the article ‘‘Emergency Nursing Staff Dispatch: Sensitivity and Specificity in Detecting Prehospital Need for Physician Intervention During Ambulance Transport in Rovigo Emergency Ambulance Service, Italy’’ by Leopardi and Sommacampagna. Regarding th...

In response to the growing number of the HIV-positive patients in the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Iranian Ministry of Health and Education established several special clinics in all Iranian provinces to provide treatment and care to HIV-positive patients. The Rafsanjan AIDS Clinic is one such clinic that was set up in 1996. Running such a clinic is not without difficulties, given the nature o...

Department of Small Animal Internal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord Branch, Shahrekord, Iran Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, ShahreKord Branch, Islamic Azad University, ShahreKord, Iran Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord Branch, Shahrekord, Iran Young Researchers a...