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Potential risks associated with traditional herbal medicine use in cancer care: A study of Middle Eastern oncology health care professionals

By: Ben-Arye E., Samuels N., Goldstein L.H., Mutafoglu K., Omran S., Schiff E., Charalambous H., Dweikat T., Ghrayeb I., Bar-Sela G., Turker I., Hassan A., Hassan E., Saad B., Nimri O., Kebudi R., Silbermann M.
Published in: Cancer
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: BACKGROUND The authors assessed the use of herbal medicine by Middle Eastern patients with cancer, as reported by their (more…)

El Niño and climate change – Contributing factors in the dispersal of Zika virus in the Americas?

By: Paz S., Semenza J.C.
Published in: The Lancet
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
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On ‘Efficient statistical tests to compare Youden index: Accounting for contingency correlation’

By: Reiser F.B., Nakas C.T.
Published in: Statistics in Medicine
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
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Extreme sensory processing patterns and their relation with clinical conditions among individuals with major affective disorders

By: Engel-Yeger B., Muzio C., Rinosi G., Solano P., Geoffroy P.A., Pompili M., Amore M., Serafini G.
Published in: Psychiatry Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Previous studies highlighted the involvement of sensory perception in emotional processes. However, the role of extreme (more…)

A Cross-Cultural Longitudinal Examination of the Effect of Cumulative Adversity on the Mental and Physical Health of Older Adults

By: Palgi Y., Shrira A.
Published in: Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Self-oriented adversity refers to traumatic events that primarily inflict the self, whereas other-oriented adversity ref (more…)

Factors related to the mobility of hospitalized older adults: A prospective cohort study

By: Zisberg A., Syn-Hershko A.
Published in: Geriatric Nursing
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: A low ambulation rate is common even among acutely ill hospitalized older adults. This prospective observational study c (more…)

Changing the approach to treatment choice in epilepsy using big data

By: Devinsky O., Dilley C., Ozery-Flato M., Aharonov R., Goldschmidt Y., Rosen-Zvi M., Clark C., Fritz P.
Published in: Epilepsy and Behavior
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Purpose: A UCB-IBM collaboration explored the application of machine learning to large claims databases to construct an (more…)

Who Knows Who Cares for Me: C’est La Vie: Abuse of Israeli and Palestinian Prisoners’ Human and Medical Rights—A Foucaultian Perspective

By: Einat T., Parchev O., Litvin A., Michaeli N., Zelikovitz G.
Published in: Prison Journal
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: One fundamental measure of a liberal democracy concerns its guarantee of civil and health liberties to prisoners. The st (more…)

Increased soluble CD72 in systemic lupus erythematosus is in association with disease activity and lupus nephritis

By: Vadasz Z., Goldeberg Y., Halasz K., Rosner I., Valesini G., Conti F., Perricone C., Sthoeger Z., Bezalel S.R., Tzioufas A.G., Levin N.A., Shoenfeld Y., Toubi E.
Published in: Clinical Immunology
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Introduction: B cell receptor (BCR) -mediated signals are enhanced when CD72 expression is deficient on B cells in autoi (more…)

The risk for developing cancer in Israeli ATM, BLM, and FANCC heterozygous mutation carriers

By: Laitman Y., Boker-Keinan L., Berkenstadt M., Liphsitz I., Weissglas-Volkov D., Ries-Levavi L., Sarouk I., Pras E., Friedman E.
Published in: Cancer Genetics
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Cancer risks in heterozygous mutation carriers of the ATM, BLM, and FANCC genes are controversial. To shed light on this (more…)

The HIV care continuum among men who have sex with men in Moscow, Russia: A cross-sectional study of infection awareness and engagement in care

By: Wirtz A.L., Zelaya C.E., Latkin C., Peryshkina A., Galai N., Mogilniy V., Dzhigun P., Kostetskaya I., Mehta S.H., Beyrer C.
Published in: Sexually Transmitted Infections
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objectives Early diagnosis and treatment of HIV infection is critical to improving clinical outcomes for HIV-infected in (more…)

Effectiveness of integrating individualized and generic complementary medicine treatments with standard care versus standard care alone for reducing preoperative anxiety

By: Attias S., Keinan Boker L., Arnon Z., Ben-Arye E., Bar’Am A., Sroka G., Matter I., Somri M., Schiff E.
Published in: Journal of Clinical Anesthesia
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Study Objective Preoperative anxiety is commonly reported by people undergoing surgery. A significant number of studies (more…)

The genetics of Bene Israel from India reveals both substantial Jewish and Indian ancestry

By: Waldman Y.Y., Biddanda A., Davidson N.R., Billing-Ross P., Dubrovsky M., Campbell C.L., Oddoux C., Friedman E., Atzmon G., Halperin E., Ostrer H., Keinan A.
Published in: PLoS ONE
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: The Bene Israel Jewish community from West India is a unique population whose history before the 18th century remains la (more…)

Consumption of herbal and dietary supplements in patients undergoing bariatric surgery: Cross-sectional prospective study

By: Attias S., Levy I., Ben-Arye E., Matter I., Sroka G., Grimberg O., Schiff E.
Published in: Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background: The use of dietary and herbal supplements (DHS) is common among the general population and among hospitalize (more…)

EPG5-related Vici syndrome: A paradigm of neurodevelopmental disorders with defective autophagy

By: Byrne S., Jansen L., U-King-im J.-M., Siddiqui A., Lidov H.G.W., Bodi I., Smith L., Mein R., Cullup T., Dionisi-Vici C., Al-Gazali L., Al-Owain M., Bruwer Z., Al Thihli K., El-Garhy R., Flanigan K.M., Manickam K., Zmuda E., Banks W., Gershoni-Baruch R., Mandel H., Dagan E., Raas-Rothschild A., Barash H., Filloux F., Creel D., Harris M., Hamosh A., Kölker S., Ebrahimi-Fakhari D., Hoffmann G.F., Manchester D., Boyer P.J., Manzur A.Y., Lourenco C.M., Pilz D.T., Kamath A., Prabhakar P., Rao V.K., Rogers R.C., Ryan M.M., Brown N.J., McLean C.A., Said E., Schara U., Stein A., Sewry C., Travan L., Wijburg F.A., Zenker M., Mohammed S., Fanto M., Gautel M., Jungbluth H.
Published in: Brain
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Vici syndrome is a progressive neurodevelopmental multisystem disorder due to recessive mutations in the key autophagy g (more…)

The use of focus groups as a basis for planning and implementing culturally appropriate health promotion among people with diabetes in the Arab community [Le recours à des groupes de discussion comme base de planification et de mise en oeuvre d’une promotion de la santé culturellement adaptée auprès de personnes atteintes de diabète dans la communauté arabe] [La utilización de grupos de foco como base para planificar e implementar una promoción de la salud culturalmente apropiada en personas con diabetes de la comunidad árabe]

By: Levin-Zamir D., Badarne S., Najami M., Gan Noy S., Poraz I., Shapira M., Lieberman N., Goldfracht M.
Published in: Global Health Promotion
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Objective: The main study objective was to identify perceived barriers to achieving glycemic control among the Arab popu (more…)

Aging well: Observations from the women’s health initiative study

By: Woods N.F., Rillamas-Sun E., Cochrane B.B., La Croix A.Z., Seeman T.E., Tindle H.A., Zaslavsky O., Bird C.E., Johnson K.C., Manson J.E., Ockene J.K., Seguin R.A., Wallace R.B.
Published in: Journals of Gerontology – Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background. As the proportion of the population aged 80 and over accelerates, so does the value of understanding the pro (more…)

Council of Europe: Guide on the decision-making process regarding medical treatment in end-of-life situations

By: Veshi D., Neitzke G.
Published in: Medical Law International
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: In this contribution, the “Guide on the decision-making process regarding medical treatment in end-of-life situations” p (more…)

Not the promised land: African asylum seekers and refugees in Israel

By: Shamai M., Amir Y.
Published in: Qualitative Health Research
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: The phenomenon of African asylum seekers in Israel is relatively new. The purpose of the study was twofold: (a) to inves (more…)

Predictors of optimal cognitive aging in 80+ women: The women’s health initiative memory study

By: Goveas J.S., Rapp S.R., Hogan P.E., Driscoll I., Tindle H.A., Smith J.C., Kesler S.R., Zaslavsky O., Rossom R.C., Ockene J.K., Yaffe K., Manson J.E., Resnick S.M., Espeland M.A.
Published in: Journals of Gerontology – Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences
SDGs : SDG 03  |  Units:   | Time: 2016 |  Link
Description: Background. Independent predictors of preserved cognitive functioning and factors associated with maintaining high prese (more…)