traditional production of grape syrup in iran inaugurated by addition of natural clay in order to decrease the acidity for subsequent heating. the presence of some mineral residues and sand in the final product which is mainly due to clay impurity might cause and adverse effect. in this study, eleven samples of traditionally produced grape syrup were collected randomly from different regions of...

BACKGROUND The research was carried out within the course of two years (2005-2006) in four countries from southern, southeast and eastern parts of Europe: Bulgaria, Italy, Macedonia and Romania. The data are collected mainly from Bulgaria and Italy and are compared with those from Macedonia and Romania. METHODS The information was gathered largely from literature as well as field collected da...

Background: Cancer is a major cause of mortality worldwide with increasing numbers by the years. In North Africa, the number of cancer patients is alarming. Also shocking is that a huge number of cancer patients only have access to traditional medicines due to several factors, e.g., economic difficulties. In fact, medicinal plants are widely used for the treatment of several pathologies, includ...

Developing countries, where malaria is endemic, depend strongly on traditional medicine as a source for inexpensive treatment of this disease. However, scientific data to validate the antimalarial properties of these herbal remedies are scarce. Consequently, it is important that antimalarial medicinal plants are investigated, in order to establish their efficacy and to determine their potential...

Traditional healers in Nigeria continue to perform uvulectomy for all throat problems despite the severe complications they present to physicians. It is a hospital-based prospective study done at the outpatient unit of the Department of Otolaryngology, Jos University Teaching Hospital, Jos, Nigeria to determine the prevalence of traditional uvulectomy, highlighting the dangers it portends with ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this paper is to provide a personal account of how my work in evaluation has changed over the years and how, despite the changes, essential similarities remain. I began my career in evaluation in a rather traditional mode, trained at Northwestern in the days of Donald Campbell, Lee Sechrest, Bob Boruch, Tom Cook, Paul Wortman and the rest of the original Northwestern ...