although the history of iran is rife with conquerors and military campaign, but there were not any national and real army at all. in fact, the idea of a single unified army has no precedent in iranian history. ever in the timesthe achaemenid empire, the rulers had felt safer with separate units of armed forces. this mechanism allowed them to play on one group against another so  prevented any c...

  Purpose: To assess the epidemiologic features of shigellosis in Iranian military personnel of   the Army.   Materials and Methods: The data was gathered from archived reports of Iran’s Army at AJA   University of Medical Sciences. All military personnel with confirmed diagnosis of shigellosis   reported by the Army physicians were included in the study. Data analysis was done by appropriate  ...

fecal calprotectin is released in colon by activated neutrophils. investigation of diagnostic application of determination of fecal calprotectin levels is considered by many researchers to compare between different colorectal diseases like irritable bowel syndrome (ibs) and inflammatory bowel diseases (ibd). due to the effect of nutrition habits on the inflammatory processes of bowel, the main ...

BACKGROUND Public health is a multidisciplinary activity whose fields of action are acquiring an increasingly broad. The Service de santé des armées (SSA) has always had a culture of public health problems thanks to doctors specialized in the treatment of major diseases. Often involved in public health activities, health professionals nevertheless have a fragmented vision. The objective was to ...

In the event of a major European war the Army Medical Services (AMS), of whom the majority would be drawn from the Territorial Army (TA), would be exposed to a unique combination of stresses. Ways of reducing the effects of these are discussed.

background: in most armies, clothes, equipment and weapons are designed according to the physical characteristics and anthropometric data of soldiers. objective: to study the anthropometric characteristics of iranian army force and their changes over recent years. methods: 12 635 iranian military personnel aged between 18 and 30 years with tenure of <10 years who were normally engaged in educat...

This was a clinical and audiometric survey of a sample of 299 Territorial Army (TA) servicemen in the London area to identify the priority to be given to and the broad content of a Hearing Conservation Programme for the TA. A questionnaire was used to estimate previous noise exposure and the use of hearing protection. It is estimated that 4% of TA personnel have a hitherto undetected hearing lo...

TEHRAN (AP) Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s followers, already holding scores of hostages in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, seized two U.S. consulates and the British Embassy yesterday in an escalating war of nerves against “ the great Satan, America” and its “ evil ” ally. No injuries were reported in the new takeovers in Iran, and it was not known how many new American hostages were seized, if any...

A Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain (UCBPP-PA14) is infectious both in an Arabidopsis thaliana leaf infiltration model and in a mouse full-thickness skin burn model. UCBPP-PA14 exhibits ecotype specificity for Arabidopsis, causing a range of symptoms from none to severe in four different ecotypes. In the mouse model, UCBPP-PA14 is as lethal as other well-studied P. aeruginosa strains. Mutations in ...