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..that currently affects more than 350 million people around the world, including the US troops in the Middle East. Treatment of leishmaniasis is impeded by a limited arsenal of drugs, their high toxicity, and emerging ..

..trachomatis, is a leading cause of blindness for poverty-stricken communities in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. Trachoma was once widespread globally, but has vanished from the developed world...

..g., Middle East), firefighters and police officers who serve in warmer climates, or individuals involved in any other incident (..

..most common malignancy in men from developed countries, whereas it is the most common malignancy in men in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa...

..of South and Central America) and cutaneous, mucocutaneous and visceral Leishmaniasis (endemic in parts of the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent)...

..The goal of our biomedical work is to define unique features of trypanosome biology and then to exploit these traits for the design of anti-parasitic chemotherapies. ..

..West Nile virus in the Americas, Rift Valley fever virus in the Middle East, O'nyong-nyong virus in Africa)...

..Although there has been little work done on dementia in the Middle East, there is evidence-from our studies in Arabs residing in Israel-that Alzheimer's disease has a high prevalence ..

..ecology and control of mosquito-borne diseases at 7 selected cities in three regions: East Africa (Kenya), the Middle East (Israel, Egypt), and Latin America-Caribbean (Trinidad and Costa Rica)...

..proposes to study two complementary patient populations: 1) a special founder population from the Arabic Middle East, Turkey and Pakistan, wherein parents of affected children are consanguineous; and 2) a large collection of ..

..Although there has been little work done on dementia in the Middle East, there is evidence--from our studies in Arabs residing in Israel--that Alzheimer's disease has a high ..

..of South and Central America) and cutaneous, mucocutaneous and visceral Leishmaniasis (endemic in parts of the Middle East and the Indian Subcontinent)...

..West Nile virus (WNV) has emerged in recent years in temperate regions of Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and North America, where it presents a threat to human, equine and avian health...

..For the 2008 conference, we plan a satellite session on "Clinical Perspectives on Alzheimer's Disease in the Middle East" to be hosted by the Al Quds Palestinian Medical School, at their campus in the West Bank just a few miles east ..

Demographic projections indicate that populating aging is imminent in the Middle East, and sex differences in longevity mean that these growing older populations increasingly consist of women...

..They are culturally different from both Jewish and non-Jewish populations in the Middle East and their origin remains a question of great interest...

..Vitamin D supplementation alone might not prevent or treat rickets in populations with limited calcium intake...

..Systematic collection of data to inform HIV prevention strategies in prison is urgently needed. The introduction and evaluation of HIV prevention strategies in prisons are warranted...

..Medical data collection is an important instrument in documentation of the effects of weapons and in surveillance of violations of humanitarian law, particularly as to the worrying magnitude of young children being seriously victimized...

..The results are discussed in the context of military violence interfering with the protective function of family and home...

..4 per cent of the injuries were severe, with major implication for disability and the need for long-term care and support...

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..We believe that there is a need for the development of prevention and intervention strategies in order to keep this incidence low...

..This population, as others in transitional states, may be at risk for emotional distress compared with some but not all stable Israeli groups...

..The current screening policy should be complemented with more sensitive techniques to detect latent TB...

..3 to 98.1%) were observed in all geographic regions with the exception of the Africa and Middle East region (79.3 and 85.8% susceptible to fluconazole and voriconazole, respectively). C...

..0 [2.3-27.7]) and Africa (OR: 5.9 [1.6-21.6]) when compared with refugees from Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Among helminths, Ascaris lumbricoides and hookworm were concentrated among South Central Asians (6 of 7 and 10 ..

..Five populations were investigated, Northern Ireland, South African Zulu, Omani, Singapore Chinese and Mexican Mestizos...

..25 microg/ml). C. krusei is an uncommon but multidrug-resistant fungal pathogen. Among the systemically active antifungal agents, the echinocandins appear to be the most active against this important pathogen...

..The present article is an attempt to draw the attention of health authorities to snake envenomations and urges them to prepare therapeutic protocols adapted to their needs...

..5% from North America, 31.3% from Western Europe, 15.1% from Asia and Oceania, 2.2% from Middle East, 0.85% from Central and South America, 0.53% from Eastern Europe, and 0.47% from Africa...

..Our estimates are subject to considerable variation in actual settings; thus, local cost-effectiveness studies are required to guide local policy...

..The reasons for this are unclear. Possible mechanisms include psychosocial, familial, or genetic influences...

..Fifty countries, 22 from Europe, 16 from the Asia Pacific region, 3 from the Middle East and Africa, and 9 from the Americas contributed to the survey...

..Differences were found between the quality-of-life profiles of respondents in this study and those who participated in an earlier parallel study in Europe...

..Most pediatric cancer patients, regardless of their ethnic origin, use CAM without informing their physicians. Physicians should be aware and know more about it, to be advisors for better integrated care...

Previous studies have suggested that asthma prevalence is generally lower in the Middle East than in more developed countries...

..CONCLUSION: Consistent with previous research, Asian and Middle Eastern men living in a Western society appear to be more likely than Western men to report difficulties with PE...

..The prevalence of renal involvement in Israeli Arab SLE patients seems to be lower than in SLE patients from different Arab countries...

..Somewhat unexpected results have been obtained by husband's background characteristics, with higher educated men and those working in the modern sector of the economy being more likely to be married to cousins...

..3 vs. 44.6 mg/dl, respectively, p<0.001). CONCLUSIONS: A lower prevalence of dyslipidemia was found in African Bedouins, as compared with Middle-Eastern Bedouins...

..Little attention is paid to the less visible evidence that women's reproductive rights have been subordinated to the political situation...

..In several instances the religious traditions seem to have influenced the public-policy debates...

Detroit is home to one of the largest populations of Arab Americans outside of the Middle East, yet little is known about the cancer distribution in this ethnic group...

..These factors, and women's activism and civil and political lobbying for the reform of personal status now underway in a number of Arab countries, could all challenge the patriarchal system...

..Some (33%) of the patients were heterozygotes, and there were also FMF patients with none of the 5 mutations analyzed. A second opinion by an FMF expert may decrease the need for mutation analysis in subjects suspected of having FMF...

..This information is obligatory for further studies on the linkage between these SNPs and heparanase expression and function in various pathological processes, primarily cancer progression...

..The maximum sizes of ancient pythons may have been greater than those of today's specimens...

..However, gaps remain in the information and the strength of the evidence often was weak...

..Authors of relevant articles from North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Middle East and ADHD/HD experts were contacted...

..Scores from the Arab FPRQ subscales and the other measures provided evidence of concurrent and discriminant validity, suggesting that the Arab FPRQ is a viable assessment tool...

..The short form demonstrated good reliability and concurrent validity, but some factors were highly correlated. High factor correlations were not explainable by group differences in education or level of distress...

..The women were enthusiastic and candid in discussing these highly sensitive and taboo topics...

..There are currently no Islamic medicine training programs in any Arab country, and Islamic medicine has not emerged as a comprehensive health alternative comparable to other non-Western health models...

..Health care providers, specifically those dealing with MI patients, will gain insights from the suggested psychotherapeutic model and its relevance to Islamic concepts and practices...

..This article provides a theoretical integration of Eastern and Western therapeutic concepts for Muslim women, to promote a more effective therapeutic approach for this population residing in the United States...

Echinococcosis is one of the major zoonotic parasitic diseases in the Middle East and Arabic North Africa from Morocco to Egypt. Both cystic and alveolar echinococcosis has been reported from these areas...

..This is commonly found in Africa, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, southern China, and occasionally the Mediterranean region...

..The remaining 19.6% come from a number of countries, such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the Middle East. Refugee children had 51.3% caries experience and 48.7% with untreated decay...

..mellitus (T1DM) and the role of lifestyle habits and dietary factors in young children in the Arabian Gulf and Middle East region...

..However, CE is prevalent in many parts of the world including the United Kingdom, Mediterranean basin, Middle East, South America, and Australia, and is supposed to be resurgent in several parts of the world...

..study of the nature of cooperation between states over shared water resources in troubled areas of the Middle East continues to dominate the literature with minimal coverage of the Sub- Saharan Africa experience and the role ..

..conorii, the etiologic agent of Mediterranean spotted fever is widely distributed in Southern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, India and the Caspian region...

..Compared with 2004, the largest increases in cases came from the Americas (23.1%; n = 213) and Asia and the Middle East (18.6%; n = 204)...

..The lymphocytes were washed three times with phosphate-bufferd saline and the pellet suspended in 150 microL of Middle East research institute (MERI) drug extraction solution (Beirut, Lebanon), which was then added to 300 microL of IMx ..

..One fecal specimen was collected from each 981 (in 1995) and 1275 (in 1996) Japanese living in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Latin America...

..CCHF) is a fatal zoonotic viral haemorrhagic infection described in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. CCHF virus (CCHFV) classified in Bunyaviridae family and Nairovirus genus, is transmitted to humans by tick (..

..ruminants (PPR) is a contagious viral disease of small ruminants that is of economic importance in Africa, the Middle East, and Asia...

West Nile (WN) virus is a mosquito-transmitted flavivirus. It is widely distributed in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and southern Europe and was recently introduced to North America...

..which covers a large portion of the light spectrum including the bilirubin-absorbing range, is abundant in the Middle East. Such advantages prompted the present study to investigate the efficiency of sunlight in isomerizing bilirubin...

Vitamin D status is highly different in various countries of Europe, the Middle East and Asia. For this review, vitamin D deficiency is defined as serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) <25 nmol/l...

..4% in Central Eastern Europe/Commonwealth of Independent States (CEE/CIS), 17.2% in the Middle East and North Africa, and 20.7% in the USA...

..The passage from nomadic to sedentary life took place in the Middle East in around 8000 BC...

..molecular analysis of five patients with the infantile form of GM1-gangliosidosis originating from the Middle East (two from Saudi Arabia and three from the United Arab Emirates)...

Consanguineous marriages are common in many countries of the Middle East including Lebanon. Their impact on the repartition of kidney diseases and on the risk for familial nephritis is not known...

BACKGROUND: In the Middle East, some evidence suggests marked declines in cases of H. influenzae type b infection where conjugate vaccines were introduced...

There are more than 29 countries that have membership of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation (MESOT) with more than 600 million populations...

BACKGROUND: The arbovirus infections West Nile fever (WNF) and sandfly fever (SFF) are both endemic in the Middle East. Despite the fact that the mosquito and sandfly vectors of these viruses are still found in Israel, SFF has not been ..

..has changed from that of the 1980s when rinderpest was widespread throughout most of Tropical Africa and the Middle East. PPR is a disease that has become of increasing importance throughout Tropical Africa and the Middle East...

..Colombia, Mexico, United States), Europe (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, Ukraine), Middle East and Africa (Israel, Lebanon, Nigeria, South Africa), Asia (Japan, People's Republic of China), and Oceania (New ..

..has been known for many decades, the essentiality of zinc for humans was recognized only 40 years ago in the Middle East. The zinc-deficient patients had severe immune dysfunctions, inasmuch as they died of intercurrent infections ..

Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is a disease of cattle, primarily in Africa and Madagascar and rarely in the Middle East. It is caused by a capripoxvirus that belongs to the family Poxviridae...

..academic initiatives for the treatment of iron overload in thalassaemia, which is endemic in the Mediterranean, Middle East and South East Asia and is considered an orphan disease in the European Union and North America...

..However, data from many Middle East countries, including Iran, are scarce...

..The contraindications for delayed primary surgery are any sign of invasive sepsis or organ failure...

..The underlying factors for a consistent upward trend towards the end of study period and for a significant quarterly cycle in the proportions of HIV seropositive migrants merit further investigations...

..events in the United States (eg, September 2001, school shootings), Europe (eg, Madrid train bombings), and the Middle East have raised awareness of mass casualty events and the need for a capable disaster response...

A regional workshop on sexual and bodily rights as human rights in the Middle East and North Africa was held in Malta in 2003, attended by 22 NGO representatives from Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Turkey, ..

Thalassemia remains a significant health problem in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia...

..is on the rise in various developing countries as has been reported in studies from South-East Asia and the Middle East. There seems to be significant differences in the pattern and the clinical course of this disease in our ..

..Costs for transplantation and immunosuppressive therapy are either totally or heavily supported by governmental agencies...

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..Lebanon is a source country with the highest emigration factor in the Middle East and North Africa and the 7th highest in the World...

..OBJECTIVES: Since the extent of elevation of liver transaminases in type 2 diabetics in Jordan and most of the Middle East is unknown, we estimated the prevalence of elevated liver transaminase levels among patients with type 2 ..