Background and aim: Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), as utilized by European citizens, represents a variety of different medical systems and therapies based on the knowledge, skills and practices derived from theories, philosophies and experiences used to maintain and improve health, as well as to prevent, diagnose, relieve or treat physical and mental illnesses. The purpose of the...

1 Department of Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London, Denmark Hill, London, UK 2 Institute of Genomic Medicine and Rare Disorders, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary 3 Department of Neurology, Kecskemet County Hospital, Kecskemét, Hungary 4 Department of Neurology, University Medical Centre Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany 5 Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Transilvani...

Francisella tularensis subsp. holarctica isolates from Austria, Germany, Hungary, Italy, and Romania were placed into an existing phylogeographic framework. Isolates from Italy were assigned to phylogenetic group B.FTNF002-00; the other isolates, to group B.13. Most F. tularensis subsp. holarctica isolates from Europe belong to these 2 geographically segregated groups.

The authors have calculated cumulative risks of lung cancer from a case-control study conducted between 1998 and 2002 involving 2,633 lung cancer cases and 2,884 controls in Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, and Russia. The odds ratios for smoking history were combined with national lung cancer mortality rates to obtain the cumulative risk of lung cancer. The cumulative ri...

1 Department of Algorithms and Their Applications Faculty of Informatics, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter st. 1/c, Budapest, 1117, Hungary [email protected] 2 Department of Computer Science, The University of Sheffield Regent Court, 211 Portobello, Sheffield S1 4DP, United Kingdom {M.Stannett, M.Gheorghe}@dcs.shef.ac.uk 3 Department of Computer Science, University of Piteşti Str Targu ...

1 Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, North University Center of Baia Mare, Dr. V. Babes Street, No. 62A, ZIP 430083, Baia Mare, Romania, [email protected] 2 Department of Informatics Systems and Networks, Faculty of Informatics, University of Debrecen, Egyetem ter, 1., 4032, Debrecen, Hungary, su...

AIM To collect cancer epidemiology data in South Eastern European countries as a basis for potential comparison of their performance in cancer care. METHODS The South Eastern European Research Oncology Group (SEEROG) collected and analyzed epidemiological data on incidence and mortality that reflect cancer management in 8 countries - Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Slovakia...

When speaking about Professor Gheorghe Bilaşcu (1863-1926) and his major contribution to the establishment of Romanian medical education in Cluj, he should be considered not only in terms of scientist and creator of the Dental School, but also through his commitment to the development of science and culture in Romania. A wealthy dentist in Budapest where he graduated from the Dental School, he ...

BACKGROUND The two largest needle exchange programs (NEPs) in Hungary were forced to close down in the second half of 2014 due to extreme political attacks and related lack of government funding. The closures occurred against a background of rapid expansion in Hungary of injectable new psychoactive substances, which are associated with very frequent injecting episodes and syringe sharing. The a...