throughout history, many different cultures have recognized the potential use of garlic for prevention and treatment of different diseases. recent studies support the effects of garlic and its extracts in a wide range of applications. these studies raised the possibility of revival of garlic therapeutic values in different diseases. different compounds in garlic are thought to reduce the risk f...

Led by PET A n estimated 1,129,900 clinical PET studies were performed in the United States in 2005, according to a report released in August by IMV Medical Information Division, a market research and consulting firm in Des Plains, IL. These studies were performed in 1,725 hospital and nonhospital sites, using dedicated PET/CT or PET units, mobile units, or nuclear medicine cameras with coincid...

For the past two years we have engaged in a research project devoted to the problems of rehabilitation among chronically disabled rheumatoid arthritis patients. To be admitted to the study, patients had to be severely disabled, and their disease process had to be still in an active phase. Our objective was to determine the feasibility of a combined programme of hormone therapy and physical medi...

BACKGROUND About 75% of people living with HIV/AIDS (PHAs) who need antiretroviral therapy have no access to these drugs in low-income countries. OBJECTIVE To investigate the barriers to use of ART in Rakai district of Uganda. METHODS We interviewed 38 key informants and 384 PHAs. Data was collected on: education/mobilization for ART, sources of information for ART, beliefs regarding ART, s...

This paper summarizes the findings for the East and South East Asia Region of the WPA Task Force on Steps, Obstacles and Mistakes to Avoid in the Im-plementation of Community Mental Health Care. The paper presents a description of the region, an overview of mental health policies, a critical ap-praisal of community mental health services developed, and a discussion of the key obstacles and chal...

Courtesy stigma is the stigmatization a person perceives or experiences due to their association with a stigmatized individual or group. Most HIV-related stigma scales have been developed for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs), but not for their HIV-uninfected family members. To date, few measurement scales have been designed to measure the degree of stigma among both PLWHAs and their HIV-uni...

Centre for Organismal Studies, University of Heidelberg, D–69120 Heidelberg, Germany (D.G.R.); Department of Plant Biology and Michigan State University-Department of Energy Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824 (F.B.); Department of Biological and Medical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP, United Kingdom (C.H.); Department of Biolo...

a Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin , Germany; b Service de Médecine Nucléaire et de Cancérologie Endocrinienne, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif , and c Service de Pathologie, Hôpital Beaujon, Clichy , France; d Department of Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Rotterdam , The Netherlands; e Department of In...