Carine Sebaaly, Sahar Kassem, Elena Grishina , Hussein Kanaan, Alaa Sweidan, M. Said Chmit, Hussein M. Kanaan* Laboratory of Biotechnology of Natural Substances and Health Products, Faculty of Pharmacy, Lebanese University, Beirut, Lebanon, Laboratory of the Medical Analyses Center, Faculty of Public Health, Lebanese University, Hadath, Lebanon, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine STATE SCI...

1Department of Health Behaviour and Education; 2Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Health Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon. 3Infectious Disease and Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom. Received: 26/03/02; accepted: 16/03/03 ABSTRACT We studied patterns of antenatal care in lowversus high-risk pre...

In this manuscript, a Lebanese trainee psychiatrist qualitatively analyses and discusses the provision of mental healthcare services for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. There are more than 250,000 Palestinian people sporadically dispersed in the refugee camps in Sidon, Beirut and other major cities in the Levant. Displacement, conflict, trauma, unemployment and poverty are but some of the myri...

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McMaster University; Hamilton, Canada; Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine Program; Hamilton, Canada; Universitaetsklinikum; Freiburg, Germany; National Center for Rare Diseases; Istituto Superiore di Sanit a; Rome, Italy; National Research Council; Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies; Rome, Italy; National Research Council; Institute of Clinical Physiology; Lecce, Italy;...

Clinical experience with fetal hemoglobin induction therapy in patients with b-thalassemia Khaled M. Musallam, Ali T. Taher, Maria Domenica Cappellini, and Vijay G. Sankaran Department of Medicine and Medical Specialties, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda, Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, University of Milan, Milan, Italy; Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, B...

Methodological issues in modelling time-of-travel preferences Moshe Ben-Akiva & Maya Abou-Zeid a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA b Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, American University of Beirut, P.O. Box 11 – 0236, FEA-CEE, Room 2M3, Riad El-Solh, Beirut 1107 2020, Leban...

a Department of Gynecology, Martin-Luther-University, Halle/Saale, Germany; b Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon; c Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne, Australia; d Department of Oncology and Radiotherapy, Medical University of Gda ’ nsk; Gdansk, Poland; e Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, Univers...