In the present paper a phytosociological study on dry grassland communities identified in western sector of Murgia Plateau (Murgia delle Gravine) and Lucanian badlands territory is presented. Forty vegetation releves were carried out using Braun-Blanquet approach. Two new associations characterized by therophytic dominance, namely Lysimachio foeminae-Atractylidetum cancellatae Campanulo erini-M...

This paper contains first systematical revision of the results on traditional use of wild medicinal and aromatic herbs on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H)--west of Balkan Peninsula; Southeast of Europe. There have been detected 227 plants belonging to 71 different plant families, which are being used with ethno therapeutic purpose. Results were obtained by method of open ethno bota...

Abstract Clinopodium serpyllifolium is a perennial medicinal plant generally used as herbal tea in folk medicine. Leaves of C. from the representative exemplars Newe Ya’ar living germplasm collection were analyzed for their polyphenolic and volatiles composition, tested antioxidant activity. The oxygenated monoterpenes pulegone (10.4–50.6%), piperitenone oxide (3.2–28.6%), (0.9–14.6%), trans -p...

Patterns of Medication Initiation in Newly Diagnosed Diabetes Mellitus: Quality and Cost Implications Nihar R. Desai, MD, MPH, William H. Shrank, MD, MSHS, Michael A. Fischer, MD, MS, Jerry Avorn, MD, Joshua N. Liberman, PhD, Sebastian Schneeweiss, MD, ScD, Juliana Pakes, MEd, Troyen A. Brennan, MD, JD, MPH, Niteesh K. Choudhry, MD, PhD Divisions of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics an...