*Correspondence: Katayoun Najafizadeh, MD, Associated Professor of Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine, Lung Transplantation Research Center, Masih Daneshvari Hospital, Darabad, Niavaran, Tehran, Iran Phone: +98-21-2610-9966 E-mail: [email protected] In 2010, there were only some 4.3 organ donors per one million population in Iran while, on average, the rate was 10–20 donors per one mi...

In this presentation an account of the large-scale production and the standardization of polyvalent Clostridium perfringens vaccine in Iran is described. Over 20 million doses of this vaccine are produced and utilized in Iran every year. Certain modifications have been made to the culture media used in our laboratory for the production of this vaccine in order to bring down its cost. The prepar...

Furthermore, Gordon and Gill (1) said that the Iranian program of kidney transplantation has been a contributing factor limiting the advancement of deceased donation and living-related donation in Iran. However, the annual number of deceased donor kidney transplants rose from less than 1% of all kidney transplants at the end of 2000 to 30% in 2012. Kidney transplantation using deceased donors w...

NICOSIA, Cyprus I ra n ac ­ cused the United S ta tes and Arab nations W ednesday of try ing to im pose an “ ig­ nom inious p eace ,” and re jec ted any com prom ise in its 7-year-old w ar w ith Iraq . Sandstorm s sw ept the P e r ­ sian Gulf, d rastica lly reducing visibility. Shipping executives puzzled over the w hereabouts of another convoy of Kuw aiti tan k ers and U.S. navy escorts, or w ...

Progress in controlling communicable diseases increases the relative importance of noncommunicable diseases, including genetic disorders. In Iran, the development of primary health care over the past 20 years has greatly reduced infant mortality and crude birth rate. Accordingly, in 1991 prevention of non-communicable diseases was added to the primary healthcare programme, and a department for ...

3 Running title: Task dependent category representation in IT 4 5 6 Nazli Emadi1,2,3, Hossein Esteky1,2 7 8 1: School of Cognitive Sciences, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), 9 Tehran, Iran, 10 2: Research Center for Brain and Cognition, School of Medicine, University of Shahid Beheshti, 11 Tehran, Iran. 12 3: Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Neurobiology, S...

Within eleven minutes on 11 August 2012, twin earthquakes measured 6.3 and 6.4 on the Richter scale jolted Ahar and Varzaqan in northwestern Iran, claiming 300 lives and leaving thousands of injured in rural villages.12 The magnitude of the earthquakes was so immense that more than a hundred villages were 70-90% destroyed, while 20 being totally flattened. The primary estimations were suggestiv...

BACKGROUND Leishmaniasis covers a range of clinical manifestations. Estimation of the burden of leishmaniasis may help guide healthcare management personnel and policy-makers in applying effective interventions. The present study aimed to calculate the incidence and burden of cutaneous and visceral leishmaniasis in Iran in 2013. METHODS To evaluate the epidemiological aspects of the disease i...