our present knowledge ot the aetiology a reason for the selection b}7 this disease sometimes known as Rock fever of such unfertile spots may be that in such places goat's milk would seem to be more drunk proportionately by the population than cow's milk. Among the barren rocks of Jhansi, where the cases in question have occurred, the hardier and more active goats can pick up a better living fro...

1 Applied Microbiology and Molecular Biotechnology Research Group, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Democritus University of Thrace, 68100 Alexandroupolis, Greece 2 Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AD, UK 3Department of Food Studies and Environmental Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, Msida MSD 2080, Malta 4 Inst...

A. Papayannis, D. Balis, V. Amiridis, G. Chourdakis, G. Tsaknakis, C. Zerefos, A. D. A. Castanho, S. Nickovic, S. Kazadzis, and J. Grabowski Department of Physics, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Laboratory of Atmospheric Physics, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece Department of Geology, University of Athens, Greece Department of Physics, University of São Paulo, Br...

Malta, like many other countries, is faced with the problem of sustaining the coverage and quality of the services offered by its public health system in the face of a rapid rise in health care costs. Within this context, local public health services must undergo the necessary transformation in order to meet future needs, expectations and demands of health care consumers. The aim of this paper ...

BACKGROUND Obesity is a global epidemic with the Mediterranean island of Malta being no exception. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified Malta as one of the European countries with the highest obesity prevalence. METHOD A cross-sectional study was conducted (2014-2016) under the auspices of the University of Malta. The prevalence of overweight-obesity in Malta was calculated and ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To estimate birth prevalence of tetralogy of Fallot (TF) in Malta. DESIGN Retrospective data collection and analysis, and comparison with earlier epidemiological studies dealing with congenital heart disease. SETTING Regional hospital providing exclusive diagnostic and follow up services for the entire country of Malta. PATIENTS All Maltese live births diagnosed as having ...

background: brucellosis is a bacterial infection mostly transmitted by animals to humans; thus, consideration of sanitary instances is an important preventive method for this disease. therefore, we designed a study in order to reduce the rate of brucellosis in baneh county, kurdistan province, iran. materials and methods: the sources of data were the medical documents of patients diagnosed in h...

OBJECTIVES Numerous studies have reported the epidemiological and clinical features of Malta fever incidence in Iran. Review and synthesis of the related literature through meta-analysis can provide an appropriate measurement for aforementioned indices. Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the epidemiological and clinical features of people with Malta fever in Iran. METHODS The req...

It seems surprising that the medical history of an island which is of about the same area as the Isle of Wight can justifiably be extended to 586 large pages. This splendidly produced volume however contains little that is irrelevant, covering as it does in considerable detail the early history-which is similar to that which would be applicable to most parts of the Mediterranean basin-the patte...

The government of Malta ratified this Agreement on abolishing visas for refugees on January 17, 1989.