BACKGROUND Participatory gastric headache is a type of headache described in Iranian traditional medicine. It is defined as a headache not originated from the head and neck disorders; rather the pain in the head is caused by gastric dysfunction and its disorders. Treatment of this type of headache is completely reliant on the treatment of the gastric complaint. Reviewing Iranian traditional med...

Iran is suffering from the 2(nd) most severe addiction to opioids in the world. While the explanation of this enormous drug problem is refutably related to drug trafficking, the drug dilemma also illustrates the chain reaction of the imposed war with Iraq in 1980 - 88; the problems of poverty, unemployment, urbanization, homelessness, adultery, family crises, divorce, domestic violence, and run...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis viruses are one of the most important concerns in the patients on hemodialysis who are at high risk for blood-borne infections. GB virus C (GBV-C)/hepatitis G virus (HGV) is positive-stranded RNA virus with global distribution, which codes structural and nonstructural proteins (such as NS3). OBJECTIVES Review on literature about Iranian HGV isolates showed that there was ...

Background The aim of this study was systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence in current and relevant literature about this developmental disorder to present the profile of malocclusion in Iran. Methods This review study was carried out with systematically identified and critically assessed studies reporting malocclusion prevalence among Iranian population in permanent dentition. Nat...

This paper reviews the movement of open access (OA) journals in Iran, investigates and compares the influence of Iranian journals in terms of citation ranking, using the Citation Indexes of Thomson-ISI. There has been growth in the number of open access journals in Iran. The advantages of open access for Iranian researchers are: (i) provides access to other research done in their research field...

How do children begin to use language to say things they have never heard before? The origins of linguistic productivity have been a subject of heated debate: While generativist accounts posit that childrens early language reflects the presence of syntactic abstractions, constructivist approaches instead emphasize gradual generalization over frequently-heard forms. Here we develop a Bayesian st...