If you ask most medical school deans if they have a course, program, or center doing bioethics, they will enthusiastically assure you that they do. And their enthusiasm for bioethics grows exponentially in proportion to their interest in showing that they are doing something about managing research ethics issues at their institutions. The same can be said about the entire biomedical research es...

X k=1 z 0k A0;k(z M)Mi01(z M): (41) This formula makes transparent exactly what happens in a recursive computation of the correlation functions. At every stage i, we have the Z-transform at points M 0i n of the appropriate function. In going to the (i + 1)st stage, the rst term Mi01(z M) ensures that values at the previous stage are retained at the even points, while the second term interpolate...

Background and Aim: Currently, cardiovascular diseases, including coronary heart disease, are one of the leading causes death in humans worldwide. In Eastern Mediterranean Middle East, our country, diseases major health social problems, size which is rapidly increasing. Due to growth medical technologies, population growth, lifestyle changes, studying consequences costs healthcare a critical is...

BACKGROUND According to importance of cirrhosis of the liver and the lack of information about the economic burden of the disease, we performed this study to estimate the economic burden of liver Cirrhosis in Iran in 2011. METHODS The cost-of-illness method, based on the human capital theory, has been used. Both direct and indirect costs have been estimated using a prevalence approach and bot...