BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to conduct an audit of point-of-sale (POS) tobacco advertising and assess compliance with an advertising ban in a large district of Beirut, Lebanon. METHODS The audit was conducted 3 months following the ban on tobacco advertising. Trained students observed all tobacco retail outlets (n = 100) and entered data into a web-based form using iPad(®) tech...

Symptoms of gastroenteritis compatible with a food-borne outbreak started appearing among employees at the central headquarters of a “Bank” located in Beirut, Lebanon, on the evening of Monday 17 May 2004. Earlier on that day, many employees had had lunch at the bank cafeteria. All of those with signs and symptoms had eaten the main dish of chicken noodles au gratin served at the cafeteria on t...

The Argentinian author Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993) left us a vast body of works which are considered outstanding in many ways. In 1960, she published a short story, entitled "El médico encantador" (The Charming Physician), in the renowned literary magazine Sur. The central character of this piece is a family doctor named Albino Morgan, who had a secret truth: in any house he visited, all variety...

A vedis Donabedian was born in Beirut, Lebanon on 7 January 1919. As a child he moved to a small town near Jerusalem in Palestine (now Israel) after his family fled the Armenian holocaust. However, in Palestine he experienced the social turmoil of that region. Although a Christian, he had Jewish, Arab, and Christian friends as he was growing up in Palestine. At the interpersonal level he was ab...

This study was aimed to validate the 5th and 6th editions of tumor-node-metastasis (TNM) system for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and attempted to improve prognostic stratification by modifying the 6th edition according to vascular invasion and tumor size. From 1986 to 2002, a total of 5,613 HCC cases from Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in southern Taiwan were enrolled. ...

Objective: In this study, we aimed to evaluate whether there are negative effects of transrectal prostate biopsy (TPB) on sexual functions (SF).Methods: This study includes 252 male patients evaluated prospectively who underwent TPB in our clin-ic between January 2015 and September 2016. Patients with chronic diseases (e.g. diabetes mellitus, hy-pertension) the use drugs antihypertensive drugs,...

Karel Souček, Andrés Kamaid, Anh D. Phung, Lukáš Kubala, J. Chloë Bulinski, Richart W. Harper, and Jason P. Eiserich* Departmentof InternalMedicine,Universityof California,Davis,California Departmentof PhysiologyandMembrane Biology,Universityof California,Davis,California Cancer Center, SchoolofMedicine,Universityof California,Davis,California Departmentof Biological Sciencesand PathologyandCel...

Covid-19 pandemic teaches us that climate change impact sometimes incredibly unpredictable. Not only the increase of heat exposure or natural hazard due to extreme weather, but emergence new species mutation microorganism changing ecology may harmful for human beings and another organism. This anthropological phenomenon has negatively altered most fundamental resources living organism: air, wat...

Thank you very much Dean. I am delighted to be back at the Law School this afternoon. As I look around the room, I see people from my past and present. I was a student of Professor Gorman and Professor Lesnick in the early 1970s. A few years later, I worked with individuals who are in the audience from the State Department of Education in Harrisburg. Richard Mandell' was part of the interviewin...