*Corresponding Author: Prof. Hajieh Shahbazian, Diabetes Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran. E-mail: [email protected] Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: World diabetes day was introduced by the international diabetes federation (IDF) and WHO in 1991, in response to increasing prevalence of diabetes around the wo...

Every day, worldwide, tens of thousands of people’s lives are changed for the worse because of a stroke. In the United States, every 45 seconds someone will suffer a new or recurrent stroke; every 3.1 minutes someone will die from a stroke.1 Others will have warnings of stroke, which will go largely unheeded, and if heeded, often will go unaddressed. And yet, many strokes can be prevented and t...

The World Hypertension League is encouraging all of us to focus our attention on hypertension through designation of May 17, 2007, as “World Hypertension Day.”1 Most of the readers of Hypertension will pay more attention to this encouragement than the average person. But, even many of us who focus much of our life on patient care or research related to hypertension need to pause and consider th...

Since 2000, on the last Sunday in September we celebrate World Heart Day in order to raise global awareness of the importance of cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and promote their control. The event arose as an initiative of the World Heart Federation and enjoys the patronage of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).1...

The year 2001 is going to be very crucial for mental health all over the world. The world Health Organisation, for the first time in its history, has decided to specially focus on mental health activities during 2001. The World Health Day, which is celebrated all over the world on 7th of April, will this year have its theme as mental health. The World Health Assembly which meets in the month of...

In the field of natural language processing, semantic disambiguation words is beneficial to several applications, which helps us identify correct meaning a word or sequence according given context. It can be formulated as combinatorial optimization problem where goal find set meanings that contribute improving relationship between target words. The Crow Search Algorithm (CSA) nature-inspired al...

White Spot Disease (WSD) is well known as a widespread viral disease in shrimps from 1992. Many studies focused on morphological, histopathological and epidemiological characteristic and pathogenecity of the disease but less on the determination of the severity of WSD using the histopathological features in target tissues. A generalized scheme for assigning a numerical qualitative value to sev...

1Institute of Mental Health 2Department of Psychiatry, Singapore General Hospital Address for Correspondence: Dr Kuan Tsee Chee, Woodbridge Hospital and Institute of Mental Health, Buangkok Green Medical Park, 10 Buangkok View, Singapore 539747. Email: [email protected] Introduction In medical disease, there are physical and/or mental symptoms and generally, there is a recognised aetiol...