background: during recent years, overpopulation, increase of wastewater, and drop in water tables has led to high concentration of salts in underground water, which is an important environmental pollutant. if concentration of salt in drinking water exceeds the limits, it will be dangerous for health. the aim of this study was to measure physical and chemical parameters in drinking water of rura...

this research was conducted during 2009 at a regional scale in birjand and qaen counties, southern khorasan, as an attempt to develop a sustainability index (si) for quantifying the sustainability of saffron agroecosystem. the information of these agroecosystems, including socio-economic, agronomic and ecological indicators was collected using questionnaires and was subjected to statistical ana...

qoheston is a region in the southeastern khorasan which includes kashmar, tabas, ferdos, birjand, qaen, torbate haidarie, khaf and taibad cities. this region is surrounded by sabzevar and nishaboor from north, central desert from west, sistan and kerman from south and naomid plains from east. in addition to the geographical and climatic characteristics of the region the abundance of historical ...

Alireza Ehsanbakhsh, Nasrin Khorashadizadeh, Amin Saburi 3, * 1 Radiology Department, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, IR Iran 2 Chemical Injuries Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran 3 Atherosclerosis and Coronary Artery Research Centre, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, IR Iran Corresponding Author: Amin Saburi, MD, Chemi...

Obesity and overweight in children and adolescents are one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century, such that increased more twofold fold from 20 years ago (1). The numbers have doubled Childhood Obesity as the global principal health problem is steadily involving many lowand middleincome countries, particularly within urban areas (2-5).Obesity is a principal risk-facto...

1Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Department of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran 2School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 3Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology, School of Pharmacy, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran 4Nanotechnology Research Center, School of Pharmacy, Mashhad...

Article History Received: February 26, 2011 Accepted: September 6, 2011 ePublished: January 15, 2013 Correspondence Address: Department of General Health and Society, Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Ghaffari Street, Birjand, Iran. (Postal Code: 97178) Phone: +989151612188 Fax: +985614440550 [email protected] *Department of Public & Community H...