Introduction: Diabetes is a complex metabolic disease that not only inheritance, but also lifestyle and knowledge of individuals about the disease have an important role in the prevalence of it. The current study was carried out with purpose of determining the effect of training on doing diabetes prevention behaviors among students in Mashhad. Methods: In this semi- empirical study, 102 student...

Background: In the recent decades, the prevalence of nosocomial infections in neonates has grown and almost 21% of preterm neonates experience these kinds of infections. Some factors were proposed to have a protective effect against neonatal infections through promoting the development of the immune system of the newborn. This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of oral glutamine supplementati...

Background: Unwanted pregnancies are one of the important problems of countries. In our country despite the numerous efforts of authorities and cover a wide family planning, unwanted pregnancies and the consequences of that such as infectious abortions are common problems. Unwanted pregnancies are often due to lack of use or uncorrected use of common methods of contraception due to low knowledg...

hydrocarbons are prone to bacterial and fungal contamination. bacteria and fungi live and proliferate in water droplets within the fuels and on surfaces surrounding them. this can cause corrosion in oil exploration and production, clogging of fuel lines in aviation and higher emissions in diesel combustion engines to state few examples. state-of-the-art is the addition of biocides to fuels, whi...

this is a quasi-experimental study. purpose was to investigate effect of education on health behaviors of mothers of children under 6-12 years old, about prevention of typhoid. a sample of 60 mothers selected and then divided to two groups. one group had typhoid and the other didn't have typhoid. data were collected by a questionnaire with two parts. the first part included demographic and...

approximately 20% of the incidence of cancers are caused by obesity. there have been several studies showing that weight loss, through calorie reduction and increased exercise, can potentially reduce the risk of cancer in obese people. but currently other special methods such as anti-obesity drugs or bariatric surgeries are used for intentional weight loss. whether such intentional weight loss ...

ôbjective: presently, the issue of attempted suicide now poses one of the major challenges facing the health-care providers in ïran and other countries. âlthough in previous years, the number of people entering to hospital emergency departments after deliberately taking overdoses or injuring themselves has been steadily increased in ïran, however, there is less attention to the issue of suicide...

background: the pistachio is a nut produced by about 20 species of shrub. present-day studies show the health benefits of pistachio in preventing or treating diseases such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases (cvds), cancer, multiple sclerosis (ms), and erectile dysfunction. materials and methods: medline / pubmed, and google scholar databases were searched using the keywords of pistacia vera, ...