En ce début d’année 2021, les tensions militaires entre Téhéran et Washington s’intensifient alors que le mandat de Trump touche à son terme et que certains soupçonnent le locataire actuel de la Maison-Blanche de tenter de compliquer la tâche de son successeur. L’année 2020 avait commencé sur fond d’une guerre possible entre les deux pays au lendem...
Since the end of the period between 2003 and 2005, European and French foreign policy towards Iran have followed the US lead under both Republican and Democratic administrations. The myth of European-led nuclear negotiations with Iran, conducted without interruption from 2003 to 2015, is to a significant extent the product of a rewriting of history...
Published in BMC Oral Health
Background Novel coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has impacted populations in many ways worldwide, including access to oral health services. This study aims to assess the association between lockdown due to COVID-19 and online searches for toothache in Iran using Google Trends (GT). Methods We investigated GT online searches for toothache within...
Published in BMC health services research
This study aimed to estimate both direct medical and indirect costs of treating the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from a societal perspective in the patients at a referral hospital in Fars province as well as the economic burden of COVID-19 in Iran in 2020. This study is a partial economic evaluation and a cross-sectional cost-description stu...
Published in Arabian Journal of Geosciences
The physical characteristics of the Earth’s surface play an important role in controlling the velocity of the wind erosion threshold. Therefore, to reduce the risks of dust storms, it is necessary to determine the impact of changes in this characteristic on wind erosion events in different regions. In this regard, this study was carried out to exam...
Published in BMC Research Notes
ObjectiveHepatitis B (HB) and C (HC) are two severe viral infectious diseases with a deleterious impact on global health. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of HB and HC in the Prospective Epidemiological Research Studies of the Iranian Adults (PERSIAN) Guilan Cohort Study using immunological and molecular methods.ResultsThe blood samples ...
Published in Personalized medicine
This review gives a summary of the important genetic polymorphisms in breast cancer with a focus on people in Iran. Several single nucleotide polymorphisms were considered as breast cancer susceptibility polymorphisms within genes (STK15, ERRs, ESR1, p53, SEP15, AURKA, SHBG, SRC, FAS, VEGF, XRCC1, GST, NFκB1, XPC, XRCC3, Sirtuin-3, NKG2D). Cytosine...
Published in Parasites & Vectors
BackgroundWith the increasing number of free-range domestic chickens, helminth parasites have potentially become more of a threat to commercial flocks in recent years, and routine poultry deworming is needed to improve the efficiency of chicken production. The present study deals with a field trial to study the efficacy of two generally used anthel...
Published in Journal of Mountain Science
The groundwater may recharge the surface water bodies through seepage faces and springs. The spatial correlation between the fault zones and the groundwater seepage faces results in deep understanding of the hydrogeologic regime, especially where there is no monitoring boreholes. Locating these recharging zones by conventional methods is a challeng...
Published in JMIR Research Protocols
Background COVID-19 was declared a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Given that the severe shortage of hospital beds has led to early discharge and insufficient patient education on home care routines and isolation protocols, the close follow-up of patients and their immediate relatives is an integral part of transitioning from hospital care to home care...
