Dartmouth Medical School, Dartmouth College (P.A.V., Z.B.M., K.D.P., D.W.R., B.T.H.), Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire (P.A.V., K.D.P., D.W.R.); Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada (A.K., M.B., C.N., B.C.W.); Community and Family Medicine (Biostatistics) and The Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Da...

4 Authors: Mia Ericson, Michelle A Sama and Hermes H. Yeh. 5 Address: Institution for Neuroscience and Physiology, Section Psychiatry and 6 Neurochemistry, University of Gothenburg, PO Box 410, Göteborg 405 30, Sweden; 7 Department of Physiology, Dartmouth Medical School, One Medical Center Drive, 8 Lebanon, NH 03756. 9 10 Corresponding Author: Dr. Hermes H. Yeh, Department of Physiology, Dartm...

the main obstacle facing cancer preventive strategies worldwide is a lack of well conducted epidemiological studies to guide local and international efforts for disease control. in lebanon, long due political strain has added yet another obstacle to the development of methodologies aiming to collect data on cancer epidemiology. however, through several efforts dated from the 1960s the picture i...

BEIRUT, Lebanon President Amin Gemayel’s government scrap­ ped Lebanon’s troop withdrawal pact with Israel yesterday as part of a deal with Syria designed to end the Lebanese civil war. Gemayel held an emergency ses­ sion of his Council o f Ministers to announce abrogation of the U.S.mediated pact signed May 17. “The council has decided to cancel this. . . accord, consider it null and void and ...

Pneumocystis colonization may play a role in transmission and local inflammatory response. It was explored in patients with respiratory diseases in North Lebanon. Overall prevalence reached only 5.2% (95% CI 2.13-10.47) but it was higher (17.3%) in the subpopulation of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). COPD was the only factor associated with a significantly increased ...

Systematic national effort to improve cardiac electrophysiology practice in Lebanon is lacking, and the quality improvement program mainly relates to individual efforts along with regulations, which are set as a "Road Map" by the Lebanese Arrhythmia Working Group. Lebanon currently has five electrophysiology laboratories. The "Road Map" mainly consists of creating a registry and a National Card...

I n the Middle East, Lebanon has traditionally been known for high standards of medical education and a high quality of medical care. Its health care system is characterized by an abundance of medical schools, hospitals, equipment, and manpower; multiple systems of medical education; prevalence of the private sector; and paradoxical proficiency of the system in the face of lack of regulation. T...