Mary Jacks, RDH, MS, assistant professor and director of advanced degrees, Department of Dental Hygiene; JoAnn D. Jordan, RDH, BS, research study coordinator, Department of Periodontics. Both are with the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. Mary Jacks, RDH, MS, assistant professor and director of advanced degrees, Department of Dental Hygiene; JoAnn D. Jordan, RDH, BS, res...

We characterized Middle East respiratory syndrome coronaviruses from a hospital outbreak in Jordan in 2015. The viruses from Jordan were highly similar to isolates from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, except for deletions in open reading frames 4a and 3. Transmissibility and pathogenicity of this strain remains to be determined.

Frank Krueger,1,2 Matteo Pardini,4 Edward D. Huey,5 Vanessa Raymont,2,6 Jeffrey Solomon,7 Robert H. Lipsky,8 Colin A. Hodgkinson,3 David Goldman,3 and Jordan Grafman2 1Department of Molecular Neuroscience, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, 2Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, and 3Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institut...

introduction: medical information is a major tool in planning, coordinating and evaluating the delivered healthcare. in addition, documentation of medical records is useful for legal, educational and research purposes, managerial planning and accreditation. the purpose of this study is to identify the reasons for incompleteness of medical records and the physicians and managers' views in this r...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the present familiarity, knowledge, and attitudes of Jordanians towards epilepsy. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study that was conducted over a 6-month period, from April 2006 to October 2006 at the family clinic of Jordan University Hospital, Amman, Jordan. A face-to-face questionnaire interview was conducted with 600 non-epileptic adults who visited the clinic d...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence, reasons, source of information of vitamin-mineral supplement uses, and their relationship with selected demographic and lifestyle characteristics among Jordan University students. METHODS A cross-sectional survey was carried out at Jordan University, Amman, Jordan from March to September 2005. The survey included 1,187 students aged 17-28 years. A multis...

L ittle research is available on autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) epidemiology and clinical practice in developing countries. Studies from the Middle East are particularly rare (1 6). In Western countries, autism is regarded as highly influenced by genetics, although genetic abnormalities are only identified in a minority of patients (7). There is increasing evidence that the high rates of cons...

Authors Kay Washington, MD, PhD, FCAP* Department of Pathology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN Jordan Berlin, MD Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN Philip Branton, MD, FCAP Department of Pathology, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA Lawrence J. Burgart, MD, FCAP Allina Laboratories, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN...