Aims: Diabetes mortality undergoes a growing trend worldwide that results in reducing life expectancy society. has been significant health challenge recent decades and imposed lot of economic burden on the community. The present study aimed to evaluate diabetes Iran over five years. Methods & Materials: data published by Ministry Health Medical Education used this analytical cross-sectional...

BACKGROUND Otomycosis is a superficial fungal infection often involves the pinna and external auditory canal. It is a pathologic condition, with Candida and Aspergillus, the most common fungal species. It is common worldwide but more prevalent in tropical and subtropical countries. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the etiologic agents and local epidemiologic pattern of otomyc...

BACKGROUND On the continuation of sorting the puzzle of the situation of hydatid disease in Iran and considering that so far no survey was conducted in this context in Arak City, Markazi Province central Iran, the present study was conducted to determine the seroprevalence of human hydatidosis using AgB-ELISA test. METHODS Totally 578 serum samples randomly were collected from patients referr...

One of the inevitable consequences wars is undoubtedly migration. Migrations caused by usually take place in form movement people living endangered areas from geography where they live individually or collectively to safer protect their life safety. Even though migration due compulsory reasons, immigrants act according own will. However, some migrations that took during Second World War against...

lstituto Beni Culturali (Institute for Cultural Heritage) is the cultural institution of Regione Emilia Romagna. IBC web site [6] has been completely revised in cooperation with Hypermedia Open Center [S], the laboratory of the Electronics and Information Department at Politecnico di Milano. We adopted W2000 model for requirements analysis and for the analysis and organization of the applicatio...

In the absence of a transboundary water agreement between riparian states Harirud River Basin, downstream states—Iran and Turkmenistan—have adopted resource-capturing policy through construction Doosti Dam in lower Basin when upstream state—Afghanistan—was engaged social unrest during 1980s to early 2000s. While has high potential supplying for major cities Turkmenistan Iran, its flow declined ...

BACKGROUND PCR has been used for confirmation of leishmaniasis in epidemiological studies, but complexity of DNA extraction and PCR approach has confined its routine use in developing countries. OBJECTIVES In this study, recent epidemiological situation of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in two hyper-endemic metropolises of Shiraz and Isfahan in Iran was studied using DNA extraction by commercia...

The number of people living with HIV is increasing in the eastern Mediterranean region and the world (1) but still the coverage of anti-retroviral therapy in the region is very low (1). In Iran, there are many observed gaps in the process of HIV testing, treating and retaining cascade (2). Iran has a long way to achieve the goals published by the UNAIDS fast-track, accordingly, by the year 2020...