Toxicology services in Libya: the present and the future H ealthcare services in Libya are in need of major efforts to tackle the reconstruction challenges and to revitalize the whole system. The aim is to provide a healthcare system centered around people's needs and expectations, up-to-date with the latest medical advances, and capable of meeting rising demands (1, 2). In Libya, there is no r...

Even if investigators learn Libyan leader Moammar Khadafy w ere behind W ednesday’s jetliner bom b explosion, a majority of N otre Dame students interview ed w ould not support sending U.S. troops to Libya in retaliation. In addition, a majority o f stu ­ dents questioned support the United States' crossing Khadafy’s "line of death," despite that ac­ tion’s possible connection to the bom b blas...

Bullying, especially in developing countries, has not been much examined, especially the influence of parents on the risk of being bullied. The aim of this study was to determine whether active parenting is associated with reduced peer victimization among middle-school students in North Africa. A secondary analysis of data from more than 13,000 middle-school students who participated in the Glo...

The Libya-4 desert area, located in the Great Sand Sea, is one of the most important bright desert CEOS pseudo-invariant calibration sites by its size and radiometric stability. This site is intensively used for radiometer drift monitoring, sensor intercalibration and as an absolute calibration reference based on simulated radiances traceable to the SI standard. The Libya-4 morphology is compos...

Disease mapping has become an important method used in public health research and disease epidemiology. It is a spatial representation of epidemiology data. A very common disease mapping method is called Standardized Morbidity Ratio (SMR). Many researchers used this method to estimate the relative risk of the disease as a preliminary analysis. In this study, the SMR method displays the high and...

this study was conducted to investigate the effect of replacing barley with different levels of ground date seeds (gds) in the diet (0, 15, 3o and 45%) on performance of local growing male goats. sixteen local male kids (average live weight 16.1±1.41 kg) were allocated randomly to four treatments (4 animal/treatment). the trial consisted of a 14 day acclimatization period followed by a 60-day m...

BACKGROUND & AIMS Inflammatory bowel disease is thought to be rare in Libya. The aim is to determine the prevalence of juvenile onset inflammatory bowel disease in Libya. SETTING Al-Fateh childrens' hospital, Benghazi, Libya. METHODS This is a retrospective study of all cases diagnosed over 10 years (1997-2006) with either ulcerative colitis, Crohn's disease or indeterminate colitis. Inclus...

At least potentially karstifiable rocks cover much of the surface of Egypt and northern Libya. Study of caves and other karstic features of this region has been hampered by lack of roads, rapid disintegration of the surface of friable, poorly consolidated limestone, wind-blown sand and other factors. Interbedding with marly aquicludes hampers speleogenesis locally. Calcareous and evaporite kars...

Purpose: Abdominal calcifications are often detected on routine plain abdominal radiographs and are often not the cause of patients’ symptoms. These are more commonly seen in Libya and are often ignored by the clinicians. The aim of this article is to assess the exact incidence of abdominal calcifications in Libyan patients and the optimal management. Material & Methods: Records of 498 patients...

Objectives: Tigecycline is a new glycylcycline group antibiotic with broad-spectrum activity. In the present study we report on in vitro activity of tigecycline as well as the comparator antimicrobials linezolid and quinupristin/dalfopristin against methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strains isolated from burn wounds in Tr...