Unlike their Western counterparts, some of the Eastern/Southern Mediterranean countries lack centralized coordinated blood transfusion services leading to an unequal blood safety level. This was recently highlighted by a recent World Health Organization (WHO) regional committee report in which WHO urges these countries to establish and implement a national blood system with well-coordinated blo...

OBJECTIVE To investigate time-trend changes in the frequency of drunkenness among European and North American adolescents. DESIGN Cross-sectional surveys in the 1997/1998 and 2005/2006 Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Study (HBSC). SETTING High schools in 23 countries. PARTICIPANTS A sample of 77 586 adolescents aged 15 years was analyzed by means of hierarchical linear modeling. ...

introduction and aims: gastroesophageal reflux disease (gerd) is very common in western countries. gerd is increasing, has profound effects on health economics, disturbs the patient's health-related quality of life, and increases the risk for development of esophageal adenocarcinoma. gerd is considered to be infrequent in developing countries. this study was performed to determine the prevalenc...

in western countries we assist at the paradox that fertility is socially discouraged by a mindset that depicts fertility as a resource to exploit as late as possible. so, couples have high expectative about the advantages of delayed parenthood, but they are scarcely informed about its risks. scientific data suggests to anticipate the first pregnancy, but social pressures impose to wait, though ...

The design and implementation team of computer automation systems for the Polish power industry faced many difficult problems connected with the lack of experience in this domain in the country. Another kind of problems was implied by different levels of information and communication technology in that country and in well developed ones. The differences were generated by both internal (importat...

Early gastrointestinal cancers are defined as lesions limited to the mucosa or submucosa without invading the muscularis propria, regardless of the presence of lymph node metastases. Although the natural history of these diseases is basically alike worldwide, its management is quite different between the East and West; aggressive surgery is frequently adopted by Western surgeons, while less inv...

Intestinal schistosomiasis as unusual aetiology for acute appendicitis, nowadays a rising disease in western countries. Recent changes in global migration has led to an immigration growth in our scenario, upsurging people coming from endemic areas of schistosomiasis. Schistosomal appendicitis, seldom reported in developed countries, is now an expected incrising entity in our hospitals during th...

the rise of political islam and islamism in muslim countries cause a pervasive & contestable controversy among western scholars. today islam has been identified with activism, radicalism, fundamentalism, and etc. yet, there are many questions being propounded; such as, what is political islam? why islamic movements acted against interest of the west? why islamism constructed against the west? t...

Transition of the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) to functioning market economies creates new investment opportunities. A decade ago capital markets were almost absent in all CEE countries but they are developing rapidly. At the end of the 1990s institutional investors from Western countries are present in the equity and bond markets of the largest CEE economies. ...

nodes without involvement of peripheral lymph nodes, liver, spleen, bone marrow or peripheral blood [5]. Forty percent of all non Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHL) arise at extranodal sites [9], with the GI as the commonest extranodal site constituting 4-8% in the Western countries and up to 25% of cases in the Middle East [35]. The stomach is the most frequent site of involvement in Western countries,...