Quality of life in patients with hand eczema as health promotion: a case control study.

Health promotion has been defined by the World Health Organization's (WHO) 2005 Bangkok Charter for Health Promotion as "the process of enabling people to increase control over their health and its determinants, and thereby improve their health". One of the most important determinants of health is quality of life. Hand eczema is a common skin disease that can adversely affect the quality of life of patients.

Evaluating of life quality in patients with acne vulgaris using generic and specific questionnaires.

Background. Acne vulgaris is a common skin disease that can adversely affect the quality of life of patients. Objective.

Induced HBs antigenemia in healthy adults after immunization with two different hepatitis B recombinant vaccines.

Background And Aims: Currently, vaccination is the most effective protective tool against hepatitis B virus infection. Some studies have shown that positive results for a hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) test may be seen after vaccination.

Materials And Methods: In this clinical trial study, 62 healthy adult volunteers were randomly assigned to receive either the Engerix-B or the Hepavax-Gene hepatitis B recombinant vaccine.