An ethnobotanical survey of wild edible plants of Cyprus was carried out in two sites, Paphos vine zone and Larnaca mixed farming zone. These are among the areas in Cyprus whose inhabitants subsisted primarily on pastoralism and agriculture and therefore still preserve the traditional knowledge on wild edible plants. The information was collected for three-year period, in the framework of the E...

BACKGROUND Plans are underway to open the first two medical schools in Cyprus, a small island nation in the eastern Mediterranean. Two schools are planned: a private one which will offer graduate-only entry and provide a 4-year course and a state one which will admit school leavers for a 6-year course. AIM The article aims to examine some of the arguments that led to this development and how ...

This study employs the bounds test for co-integration and Granger causality tests to investigate the long-run equilibrium relationship between financial development, international trade and real income growth. Furthermore we are intersting in finding the direction of causality among these economic variablesfor the Cyprus economy. The results of the study reveal that financial development as mea...

Hospital procurement is a crucial field for any health care system, not only for economic reasons but also for reasons related to the quality and safety of the services provided. That is why the process of procurement is, in most countries, governed by a strict legal framework and policy mechanisms. This study investigates the problems and inefficiencies associated with the procurement of medic...

INTRODUCTION The study explored the potential economic benefit of an expanded screening program of immigrants before entrance to Cyprus as a policy to reduce the overall cost of tuberculosis (TB). Thus, the aim of this study is to study whether screening all immigrants coming from countries (including European Union countries) with high incidence of tuberculosis would be in the economic interes...

Heat illness in the British Armed Forces is a significant occupational risk. This paper analyzes reports of heat casualties occurring in Episkopi, Cyprus from January 1990 through December 1994. A total of 96 casualties were reported from 48 separate incidents. On seven occasions, three or more casualties occurred concurrently (maximum 19). There were 20 incidents causing 32 casualties from Cyp...

BACKGROUND New foci of human CL caused by strains of the Leishmania donovani (L. donovani) complex have been recently described in Cyprus and the Çukurova region in Turkey (L. infantum) situated 150 km north of Cyprus. Cypriot strains were typed by Multilocus Enzyme Electrophoresis (MLEE) using the Montpellier (MON) system as L. donovani zymodeme MON-37. However, multilocus microsatellite typin...

BACKGROUND Seasonal increases in the mortality rate have been associated with excessively cold or hot weather. We evaluated monthly patterns of mortality in selected countries. METHODS We analyzed all-cause mortality statistics from 5 European Mediterranean countries (Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Spain), Sweden, North America (United States and Canada), Australia, New Zealand and Japan. We ...

Transthyretin familial amyloid polyneuropathy (TTR-FAP) is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by the extracellular deposition of insoluble amyloid fibrils in the endoneurium. TTR-FAP occurs as a result of transthyretin (TTR) gene mutation, and more than 100 TTR mutation types are recognized [1]. It is a highly disabling and life-threatening disease, characterized by progressive sensorimotor ...

BACKGROUND Causal relationships have been previously established between smoking and various cancers. In Cyprus, 39 % of men and 14 % of women reported daily smoking in 2008. The objective of this study was to compare the incidence of tobacco-related cancers to all other cancers by district and rural-urban classification to understand the impact of tobacco in Cyprus. METHODS Data on lung, uri...