Authors Laura H.Tang, MD, PhD, FCAP* Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY 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 ...

OBJECTIVE The goal of this case-control study is to identify the significance of certain risk factors for epilepsy in a population of epileptic children in Northern Jordan. The risk factors examined are febrile convulsions, head trauma, central nervous system infections, abnormal perinatal history, family history and parental consanguinity. METHODOLOGY We designed a case-control study for pat...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the frequency and the nature of genital trauma in female children in Jordan, and to stress the role of forensics. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study conducted between March 2008 and December 2011 in Jordan University Hospital, Amman, Jordan. Sixty-three female children were examined for genital trauma after immediate admission. The mechanism of injury was categorize...

OBJECTIVE Several studies confirmed alcohol and psychotropic drug consumption as important risk factors underlying fatal accidents. This paper presents updated toxicological findings in the fatalities of road traffic accidents of Amman district, in order to have an overall picture of the occurrence of these substances in these victims in Jordan. METHOD Over a seven-year period (2008-2014), 27...

Authors Laura H.Tang, MD, PhD* Department of Pathology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY Jordan Berlin, MD Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN Philip Branton, MD Department of Pathology, Inova Fairfax Hospital, Falls Church, VA Lawrence J. Burgart, MD Allina Laboratories, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Minneapolis, MN David K. Carter, M...

OBJECTIVE To study the relationship between lipid profile, total cholesterol (TC), low density lipoprotein (LDL), high density lipoprotein (HDL), and triglycerides (TG) in Jordanian patients admitted with first ever ischemic stroke (IS) to a teaching hospital over a 3-year-period, and compared them to a control group. METHODS A retrospective case control study of all patients with diagnosis o...

Institut für Pflanzenschutz, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Peter Jordan-Strasse 82, 1190 Wien, Austria Institut für Bodenforschung, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Peter Jordan-Strasse 82, 1190 Wien, Austria School of Plant Biology, Faculty of Natural & Agricultural Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009; Science Directorate, Botanic Gardens and Par...

*Correspondence: [email protected] Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan Abstract In this article, we establish Lp estimates for parametric Marcinkiewicz integral operators with rough kernels. These estimates and extrapolation arguments improve and extend some known results on Marcinkiewicz integrals. MSC: Primary 40B20; secondary 4...

OBJECTIVE To assess the incidence of respiratory morbidity (RM) in all single live neonates born more than 36 weeks of gestation, and the effects of perinatal characteristics on these morbidities. METHODS This is a prospective hospital based study covering a 12-month period. The study took place at the Department of Pediatrics, Jordan University Hospital, Amman, Jordan, between January and De...