The study of heights provides a promising approach to a better understanding of the biological welfare of countries and regions for which conventional economic data are relatively sparse. This paper is based on a dataset previously unexploited: the individual records of nearly 10,000 Indonesian men conscripted into the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) used together with individual data...

BACKGROUND Migrants' socioeconomic adversity has been linked to schizophrenia. AIMS To investigate whether the more favourable socioeconomic situation of adoptees prevents them from the high risk of schizophrenia found in other migrants. METHOD Register study in a cohort of refugees and inter-country adoptees aged 16-40 years, born in East Africa (n=8389), Latin America (n=11 572) and 1.2 m...

Analysis of 316 outbreaks of gastroenteritis in France from September 2007 through March 2009 showed that genogroup II.4 (GGII.4) noroviruses were predominant and mostly belonged to the 2006b variant. However, the new GGII.4 variants, variant 2008 and the newly discovered Cairo variant from the Middle East, were also detected. The epidemiological survey suggests that these new variants might be...

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To investigate the attack rate and risk factors for probable dengue fever, a cross-sectional study was conducted of an Italian military unit after its deployment to East Timor. Probable dengue was contracted by 16 (6.6%) of 241 army troops and caused half of all medical evacuations (12/24); no cases were detected among navy and air force personnel.

Traditional herbal medicine and their preparations have been widely used for the thousands of years in developing and developed countries owing to its natural origin and lesser side effects or dissatisfaction with the results of synthetic drugs. However, one of the characteristics of oriental herbal medicine preparations is that all the herbal medicines, either presenting as single herbs or as ...

1. Faculty of Pharmacy, Hamdard University, Madinat al Hikmah, Karachi, Pakistan 2. Dept. of Pharmacy, Clifton Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan 3. Natural Products and Alternative Medicines, College of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Dammam, Dammam, Saudi Arabia 4. Dept. of Pharmaceutics, College of Clinical Pharmacy, University of Dammam, Dammam, Saudi Arabia 5. Dept. of Social Sciences, Shaheed Z...

INTRODUCTION It has been widely suggested that the prevalence of myopia is growing worldwide, and that the increases observed in East Asia, in particular, are sufficiently severe as to warrant the term "epidemic". Data in favour of a cohort effect in myopia prevalence are reviewed, with attention to significant shortcomings in the quality of available evidence. Additional factors contributing t...

We wish to make the following correction to the published paper [1]. The corresponding author's name is incorrect. It should be " Wenjie Sun " , not " Sun Wenjie ". We apologize to the authors of the article and readers of the journal for any inconvenience. Middle east respiratory syndrome and medical students: Letter from China. Int.

The persistence of atmospheric circulation anomalies over East Asia shows a winter to winter recurrence (WTWR) phenomenon. Seasonal variations in sea level pressure anomalies and surface wind anomalies display significantly different characteristics between WTWR and non-WTWR years. The WTWR years are characterized by the recurrence of both a strong (weak) anomalous Siberian High and an East Asi...