Objectives: Although breast milk is considered the best nutritional option for neonates, use of traditional supplements such as sugar water, camel thorn, and flix weed in the first week of life of infants is quite common in Iran and many other countries. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether consuming such supplements has any impact on infant’s breastfeeding behavior. Materials and Meth...

Despite the use of conventional physical and chemotherapeutic agents for caries management, dental caries still continues to be the most prevalent oral infectious disease. Thus, there is a need of additional caries prevention approaches. Strain replacement therapy is one such novel approach. In this, relatively avirulent strains of Streptococcus mutans produced by recombinant DNA technology are...

Variations in body-weight during the menstrual cycle have been studied by a number of workers, with conflicting results. The existence of an increase in weight during the premenstrual phase in some or all of the subjects, followed by a decrease during or after menstruation, has been claimed by some (Thomas, 1933; Okey & Stewart, 1932-3; Sweeney, 1934; Thorn, Nelson & Thorn, 1938; Morton, 1950; ...

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Within a few hours of injury or burning the number of eosinophils in the blood falls progressively to reach low or zero values and this eosinopenia (Fig. 1) lasts up to a few days (Laragh and Almy, 1948; Roche, Thorn, and Hills, 1950; Hardy, 1950; Sevitt, 1951, 1954; Evans and Butterfield, 195 1). The endocrine control of eosinopenia is known to be due to release of adrenocortical hormones thro...