Too many mothers in the world are dying or suffering from the effects of ill-health, poor nutrition and inadequate health care. Each year more than half a million mothers die in childbirth and around 4 million babies do not survive past the first 4 weeks of life [1]. A significant proportion of these deaths take place in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) of the World Health Organization. I...

The European purple sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) is considered to be a key herbivore throughout its distribution range--North-East Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. It was also abundant in its eastern distributional edge, on rocky habitats of the coastline of Israel, but its populations have recently collapsed, and today it is an extremely rare species in the region. Field and laboratory ex...

Turkey has very rich ecosystems and habitats in which various types of vegetation communities and fauna are found. These properties of Turkey depend on its geographical position, different climatic region, mountainous topographical conditions and climatic changes occurred during the Pleistocene. Several field works have been conducted during the period of 1975-2008. The field observations and a...

Background: COVID-19, as an emerging disease, is characterized by acute respiratory syndrome and caused a coronavirus. The disease was first seen in China gradually spread across other parts of the world. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate COVID-19 characteristics Eastern Mediterranean Region. Methods: data confirmed cases related deaths different countries were extracted from reports ...

This study investigates the variations of surface Moho inverted from Bouguer gravity data beneath northwestern Arabian plate. The results were obtained by applying 3DINVER program developed in a MATLAB environment using Parker–Oldenburg method. calculation show that maximum depth observed western shield approaches more than 40 km, while minimum values 16–20 km are mainly concentrated Mediterran...

BACKGROUND Local and regional scientific journals are important factors in bridging gaps in health knowledge translation in low-and middle-income countries. We assessed indexing, citations and publishing standards of journals from the Eastern Mediterranean region. METHODS For journals from 22 countries in the collection of the Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean Region (IMEMR), we ana...