background: epidemiological changes leading to chronic diseases are becoming more important day by day. hypertension is also known as a chronic disease. worldwide prevalence of hypertension have caused serious complications. the disease has become a health problem in all communities. this research aims at analyze the correlation between compliance with the treatment regimen and health locus of ...

background: national surveys in india have documented an increasing number of adolescent girls suffering from anemia. efforts to build iron stores in adolescent girls will help them improve their prepregnancy hemoglobin level. to assess the effectiveness of school-based supervised weekly, bi–weekly, and daily regimen of iron folic tablets in the treatment of anemia among adolescent girls. metho...

Eighty patients who had undergone routine meniscectomy were divided into two groups for postoperative management. The first 40 patients were treated by the traditional method of a compression bandage with a backsplint, followed by a 10-day stay in hospital. In the other 40 patients a compression bandage was applied, reinforced by a plaster cylinder. Weight-bearing was allowed with the aid of cr...

C lathrin is best known for its role in endocytosis and other membrane traffi cking events, but the protein's heavy chain has several additional functions , including organization of mitotic spindles and coordination of actin fi laments at intercellular adhesions. Vassilopoulos et al. now reveal that the clathrin heavy chain (CHC) also helps to organize skeletal muscle sarcomeres by promoting t...

background: the treatment of human brucelosis is controversial. the purpose of this study was to search published clinical trial papers to provide a simple and effective treatment in brucellosis. methods: many studies on brucellosis treatment in a twenty- year span from 1993 to 2012 were searched in pubmed, web of science (isi), scopus, google scholar, magiran, iranmedex and sid. the studies th...

In this study, the aim was to determine whether adding vitamin D to the standard therapeutic regimen of schizophrenic male patients with inadequate vitamin D status could improve some aspects of the symptom burden or not. This study was an open parallel label randomized clinical trial. Eighty patients with chronic stable schizophrenia with residual symptoms and Vitamin D deficiency were recruit...