The Lebanese Imbroglio

Why sequence genomes? The Escherichia coli imbroglio.

A little more than a decade ago, many people, including highly-respected molecular biologists, advocated the launch of a huge molecular biology programme, aimed at sequencing the whole human genome. This was perceived mostly as a technical feat rather than as a scientific programme. Indeed, genome sequencing was (and often still is) presented as an aim in itself, not as an approach to solve bio...

Nepal’s West Seti Project Imbroglio: The Supreme Court Speaks

The history of Indo-Nepal water resource cooperation is a litany of dashed hopes, shelved projects, treaties lacking implementation, and mutual recrimination. The small-neighbor versus big-brother syndrome that pervades relations in every sphere invariably arouses suspicion of unequal benefits. In this context the West Seti Hydroelectric Project in far western Nepal, the biggest energy generati...

Impact of Labor Law Implementation in the Lebanese Pharmaceutical Sector

Labor law implementation has a basic role in increasing employment stability, decreasing turnover, and managing the employer-employee relation, which increases the productivity levels in any organization. In this paper, the importance of implementing the labor law in the Lebanese pharmaceutical sector, in the two main divisions, sales (medical representative) and community pharmacies is discuss...

The Journal of the Lebanese Dental Association Official organ of the Lebanese Dental Association

Trigeminal autonomic cephalalgias are a group of disabling and excruciating primary headache disorders, consisting of cluster headaches, paroxysmal hemicrania, and short-lasting unilateral neuralgiform headaches with conjunctival injection and tearing (SUNCT). The attacks are strictly unilateral, presenting predominantly in the orbital, peri-orbital, and temporal regions, although pain may radi...

Update of the Lebanese Osteoporosis Guidelines.