Cancer chemotherapy should aim to benefit patients by improving either the duration of survival or the quality of that survival. Patient survival is measured easily, but valid methods for the assessment of physical, social and emotional health have been more difficult to develop. The definition of quality of life (QL) is essentially a philosophical problem and there are no "gold standards" to w...

The transformations broadly grouped under the term Arab Spring have shaken the foundations of a variety of Middle East regimes. This POLICY BRIEF provides an overview of different cases where changes of and within the regime have taken place, as well as yet unsolved situations, with a view to the upcoming Middle East Conference. Although the lack of progress in the PalestinianIsraeli conflict a...

This is a systematic review of existing data on dietary selenium (Se) intake and status for various population groups in Europe (including the United Kingdom (UK)) and the Middle East. It includes English language systematic reviews, meta-analyses, randomised controlled trials, cohort studies, cross-sectional and case-control studies obtained through PUBMED searches from January, 2002, to Novem...

This paper examines convergence of real GDP per capita in the selected East Asian countries and this relationship with selected Middle East countries during the period 1950-2009. The reason behind this refers to the fact that East Asia countries (including China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan and South Korea) have been involved in achieving success arising from regi...

One of the characteristics of the modern international systems is the undeniable role the new communication technologies play in different sections of human societies. Modern communication technologies such as satellites and computers have challenged the national authority and sovereignty of Vestfallian states.  Although national states, specially, in the third world countries, extremely resist...

although the zarzian was first identified in the 1920s, it has not been until recently that detailed investigations of it have been undertaken. in contrast to the intensive research on the epipaleolithic period in the levant, the zarzian in the zagros area is less well known, although it shares some similarities (as well as differences) with the levantine epipaleolithic including trajectories o...

although the hiv pandemic is witnessing a decline in the number of new infections in most regions of the world, the middle east and north africa (mena) has a rapidly growing hiv problem. while generating hiv data has been consistently increasing since 2005, mena’s contribution to the global hiv literature is just over 1% and the existing evidence often falls behind the academic standards. sever...

context this systematic review and meta-analysis was performed to determine the prevalence (by overall relative frequency) and clinical information of the behcet’s disease in middle east and north africa (mena) and it has an important effect on the health policy and performing complementary studies in future. evidence acquisition we performed this systematic literature review from several datab...

background: considering population aging in iran and the importance of cataract surgery in the old age, this study was performed to show the cataract surgical rate (csr) between 2006 and 2010 in tehran province. methods: eighteen centers were randomly selected from cataract surgery centers in tehran. in each center, one week in every season was randomly selected and the number of cataract surge...