The presence of two species within the Eurythoe complanata complex in the Mediterranean Sea is reported, as well as their geographical distributions. One species, Eurythoe laevisetis, occurs in the eastern and central Mediterranean, likely constituting the first historical introduction to the Mediterranean Sea and the other, Eurythoe complanata, in both eastern and Levantine basins. Brief notes...

The aim of the paper is to provide an overview of HIV case reporting data for the year 2011 from the countries of the World Health Organization Eastern Mediterranean Region (WHO EMR). Fourteen countries provided data for the year 2011 and reported a total of 4263 HIV cases of which 66.8% were men. The highest number of reported HIV cases in men per 100,000 population was in Oman (5.8), Somalia ...

1Nutrition and Health Studies Unit, Deanship of Scientific Research, University of Bahrain, Sukhair, Bahrain 2Arab Center for Nutrition, P.O. Box 26923, Manama, Bahrain 3Exercise Physiology Laboratory, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2458, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia 4Department of Nutrition and Food Technology, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jordan, Amman 11942, Jordan 5Unite Mixte de Res...

Introduction Severity is a basic feature that defines the prognosis of a disease. FMF presents with a variety of clinic and laboratory manifestations affecting severity, and evaluation of prognosis is an elusive task. Different severity scores have been previously proposed for FMF, and commonly used ones include Mor, Pras and Tel Hashomer severity scores however recent studies showed that there...

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OBJECTIVE To assess, particularly in longitudinal studies, how close or far the food intakes of population groups are from a reference dietary pattern. DESIGN Computation of an index, called the Mediterranean Adequacy Index (MAI), by dividing the sum of the percentage of total energy from typical Mediterranean food groups by the sum of the percentage of total energy from non-typical Mediterra...