objective: the main objective of this study is to evaluate the effect of psychological therapies and art/sport supportive interventions separately,and in combination on post traumatic stress symptoms in children and compare them with a control group . methods: in a field trial, we evaluated the efficacy of group behavioral therapy, art and sport supportive interventions in bam earthquake childr...

evidence acquisition we searched pubmed, google scholar and the cochrane databases for systemic reviews, review articles, meta-analysis and randomized clinical trials up to december 2013. results in this review, the efficacy and safety of the more commonly used cam methods for the treatment of obesity, namely herbal supplements, acupuncture, and non-invasive body-contouring, are briefly discuss...

introduction: photodynamic therapy is a noninvasive therapeutic method for tumors with a maximum depth of 5 mm. on the other hand, most photosensitizers are also susceptible to ultrasound waves (the basis of sonodynamic therapy). therefore, it is expected that a combination of the two therapeutic methods will increase effectiveness of photodynamic therapies for lower doses of sensitizer and cur...

objectives: the purpose of the present study was to study the effects of hope-oriented group-couple- therapy on the increase of marital satisfaction among wives with addicted husbands. methods: the design of study was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and a control group. population of the study included all wives with addicted husbands who volunteered to participate in the hope-orien...

introduction: failure of teeth to erupt from gingival tissues at usual developmental time is called delayed tooth eruption (dte). delayed tooth eruption lead to prolonged fixed orthodontic treatment and its eventual complications. the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of laser-assisted (808 nm) surgical uncovering, on the tooth emergence and orthodontic treatment of dte. m...

background: miscarriage is a common phenomenon complicating more than half of pregnancies. recurrent pregnancy loss (rpl) is defined as three or more pregnancies lost before the twentieth week of gestation. it is believed that abnormality in maternal immune reaction to fetus and sharing of hla antigens might be associated with rpl. objective: to investigate the effect of hla-drb1 sharing betwee...

background oxygen therapy, as a therapeutic modality, can be used for long periods of times. however, it may be accompanied by potential complications and side effects. objectives to evaluate the side effects of normobaric oxygen therapy in rabbits. materials and methods in a double-blind experiment, 28 white new zealand rabbits were randomized into an oxygen treatment group (n = 14) and a cont...

the aim of this study was to determine the incidence and causes of fever as a major problem contributing to transplantation related mortality among patients undergoing hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (hsct) and evaluation of antibiotic use, according to reliable guidelines.we retrospectively reviewed hospital records of 195 adult patients who underwent hsct between 2009-2011 at hematolo...