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Europe, Eastern (19):
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Europe, Eastern
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To assess the safety and efficacy of 48 weeks of re-treatment with peginterferon α-2a (40 kD) plus ribavirin in previously treated hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype 1 patients.
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PMID: 21502923
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Health care is widely considered to be an important determinant of health. The health care systems of Western Europe have recently experienced significant reforms, under pressure from economic globalization. Similarly, in Eastern Europe, health care reforms have been undertaken in response to the dem...
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PMID: 21563621
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We study the quantitative relationship between the lost economic productivity and excess TB cases and mortality. We use the data of the World Health Organization for TB notifications and deaths from 1980 to 2006, and World Bank data for gross domestic product. Comparing 15 countries for which suffic...
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PMID: 20427332
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We hypothesized a positive association between parental perceived discrimination and child problem behaviors, controlling for preadoption adversity. We also expected differences by world region and age of the child. Adoptive parents with Asian and Latin American children reported more discrimination...
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PMID: 21058812
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We examined the role of the common hamster in the natural cycle of tularemia using serologic methods on 900 hamsters and real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) on 100 hamsters in an endemic agricultural area. We collected 374 Ixodes acuminatus ticks from the hamsters and tested them by real-time...
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PMID: 20966287
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Thrombosis and Haemostasis (104)3 2010
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These results suggest that in this three-month study, edoxaban 30 or 60 mg qd are safe and well-tolerated....
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PMID: 20694273
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The Lancet (376)9737 2010
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International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics (110 Suppl) 2010
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Despite permissive laws and a well-developed network of facilities, the incidence of unsafe abortion and the resulting maternal mortality is unacceptably high in Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia, with one-quarter of all maternal deaths reported to occur as a consequence of abortion. Among...
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PMID: 20471645
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Vaccination against hepatitis A is indicated for travellers who visit areas with a high exposure to this type of virus. Beside tropical areas an active vaccination is indicated for the whole Mediterranean Area and Eastern Europe. This active vaccination is effective even short before departure due t...
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PMID: 20687463
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American Heart Journal (159)6 2010
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The variation in mortality and other clinical outcomes across geographic regions was not adequately explained by risk factors, patterns of care, or national health statistics. Nevertheless, large international trials are a better way to assess potential new treatments across many countries than the...
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PMID: 20569711
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This study represents the most comprehensive audit of individualized ART in clinical practice in Central and Eastern Europe. Overall, clinical pregnancy was achieved by 39.5% of patients after stimulation with follitropin alfa. The use of follitropin alfa FbM resulted in a higher cumulative pregnanc...
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PMID: 20121657
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Globally, young people under 25 accounted for an estimated 45% of all new HIV infections in 2007. Across the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region as many as 25% of injecting drug users (IDUs) are younger than 20. The Eurasian Harm Reduction assessment of young peoples' (under 25) drug use, risk be...
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PMID: 20036526
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Public Health (124)2 2010
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This study found that male immigrants from southern Africa and Asia, and female immigrants from northern Europe, southern Africa and Asia are more likely to be in good health, while the health status is lower among immigrants from Eastern Europe living in France. CONCLUSION: The diversity in health...
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PMID: 20181371
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Bratislavske lekarske listy (111)7 2010
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The failure of central planning in the totalitarian systems of the USSR and its satellites adversely affected not only the economy and social relations but also the population health. While in the countries with established democracy (DEM) the general health and the life expectancy (LE) steadily imp...
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PMID: 20806547
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The economic recession has left many undocumented migrants from the European Union accession states stranded and unemployed in the UK, without recourse to public funds. The TB team at Homerton University Hospital found a significant number of eastern Europeans squatting in derelict buildings in the...
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PMID: 20081711
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The results suggest that changes in per capita consumption have a significant impact on injury mortality in these countries, but the strength of the association tends to be stronger in countries where intoxication-oriented drinking is more common.
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PMID: 20009445
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Euro surveillance : bulletin europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin (15)44 2010
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These guidelines aim to provide comprehensive information about sexually transmitted herpes simplex virus (HSV) infection and its laboratory diagnosis in eastern European countries. They are primarily intended for professionals testing specimens from patients at a sexual healthcare clinic but may al...
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PMID: 21087585
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Swedish Dental Journal (34)2 2010
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Orthodontic treatment need and demand in 19-year-olds in Sweden has not previously been analysed in relation to geographic origin. The aim of this follow-up study was to examine the prevalence of self-perceived treatment need, malocclusion, earlier orthodontic treatment, self-perceived dental aesthe...
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PMID: 20701218
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The attitude toward xenotransplantation is less positive among Eastern Europeans living in Spain than in the native Spanish population and is influenced by many psychosocial factors that are mainly related to human organ donation....
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PMID: 20162529
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Acta Biologica Hungarica (61)0 2010
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We found that the most diverse populations are situated at the two edges of the investigated part, in the Retezat Mts. (South Carpathians) and the High Tatras, and diversity decreases towards the populations of the Eastern Carpathians. Hierarchical clustering and NMDS revealed that the populations o...
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PMID: 21565765
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Twenty respondents reported that age restrictions were not widespread in the 11 reporting countries, apart from for OST. User fees were found to be very common in HCV testing and varied for other services. It was stated to be common to inform parents of young IDUs who receive HIV services, but not t...
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PMID: 20377047
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Balkan universities use a substantial number of small mammals and amphibians in the teaching of physiology and pharmacology. This project investigated whether making computer-based alternatives readily available, and combining this availability with a staff development workshop focusing on methods o...
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PMID: 20017583
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Obstetrics & Gynecology (114)4 2009
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Certain autosomal recessive disease conditions are more prevalent in individuals of Eastern European Jewish (Ashkenazi) descent. Previously, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommended that individuals of Eastern European Jewish ancestry be offered carrier screening for Tay-S...
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PMID: 19888064
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The position of woman in any civilization is an index of the advancement of that civilization; the position of woman is gauged best by the care given her at the birth of her child. Obstetric anesthesia, by definition, is a subspecialty of anesthesia devoted to peripartum, perioperative, pain and ane...
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PMID: 19488944
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Environmental Entomology (38)4 2009
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We surveyed larval development in Agapeta zoegana L. and Cyphocleonus achates (Fahraeus), two species of biological control insects introduced from eastern Europe against spotted knapweed in western North America. We dissected spotted knapweed roots collected from five sites in western Montana over...
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PMID: 19689874
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In 1921, the JOINT-JDC [the American Jewish WeLfare Organization) together with the Jewish health organizations of Eastern Europe (OZE, TOZ) initiated a campaign to eradicate ringworm of the scalp, which was one of the major medical causes that prevented Jews from immigrating to the West. This campa...
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PMID: 19630352
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Clinical Medicine (9)1 2009
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The success of new food processing technologies is highly dependent on consumers' acceptance. The purpose of this paper is to study consumers' perceptions of two new processing technologies and food products produced by means of these novel technologies. To accomplish this, a qualitative study on co...
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PMID: 18845196
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In crude analyses, inadequate utilization of prenatal care (OR = 1.86, 95% CI 1.52, 2.28), and origin from Central and Eastern Europe (OR = 2.05, 95% CI 1.63, 2.58), the Mediterranean (OR = 1.77, 95% CI 1.38, 2.65), the Middle East (OR = 2.63, 95% CI 2.24, 3.09) and other countries (OR = 1.79, 95% C...
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PMID: 19832550
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Bratislavske lekarske listy (110)2 2009
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The analysis of health and nutrition data from various countries shows many surprising and seemingly incomprehensible facts and paradoxical relationships. Health status of a country is the result of long-term factors and therefore it cannot be changed from day to day. For example in Central European...
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PMID: 19408844
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During the mass Jewish immigration of Eastern-European Jews to Canada in the first decades of the twentieth century, Yiddish publications offered a primary forum for a group of local writers to negotiate with their new identities as Canadian Jews. Within this wider process, Montreal writers H.M. Cai...
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PMID: 20715329
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Lakartidningen (106)10 2009
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In comparison to subjects with normal BMI (>17.5) at final follow-up, subjects with BMI <17.5 had significantly lower age-adjusted BMI prior to onset of the disorder and at discharge from first admission. In addition, all outcome scores indicated poorer functioning in the group with BMI < 17.5. The...
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PMID: 18683885
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We followed a cohort of 5.3 million women between 1969 and 2004 in Sweden. Through linkage with the national cancer register, we estimated cancer risk as rate ratios (RRs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs) using Poisson regression. We reported RRs adjusted for age, calendar year of follow-up and y...
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PMID: 18829301
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The Canadian journal of clinical pharmacology = Journal canadien de pharmacologie clinique (16)3 2009
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Twenty-nine children were evaluated. Five years after adoption, 7% (N=2) still presented growth delay and 24% (N=7) microcephaly. Facial evaluation demonstrated moderate Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) features in 7% (N=2) of children. Amiel-Tison Neurological Assessment was non optimal in 46% (N=13/28...
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PMID: 19926894
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New Microbiologica (32)1 2009
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The seroprevalence of Human Herpes Virus 8 (HHV8) and its transmission pattern were assessed testing serum samples of 120 internationally adopted children (aged 1-15 years) coming from Eastern Europe. Determinations of IgG antibodies against both latent and lytic HHV-8 antigens were performed by ind...
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PMID: 19382664
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Ethnicity & Disease (19)1 Suppl 1 2009
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During the past 15 years, deep political and economic changes have occurred in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). New, independent countries have appeared on the map because of the partition of the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. One significant area of change in the...
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PMID: 19484869
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Euro surveillance : bulletin europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin (14)39 2009
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This report outlines the proceedings of the 4th Annual Meeting of the Eastern European Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health (EE SRH Network) [1,2], which took place at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden between 30 May and 3 June, 2009.
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PMID: 19814962
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Euro surveillance : bulletin europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin (13)50 2008
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The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic among injecting drug users (IDUs) shows different developments in different parts of the European region. In the countries of the European Union (EU) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), the rates of reported newly diagnosed cases of HIV inf...
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PMID: 19087869
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Journal of Trauma (65)6 2008
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The actual intervention demonstrates that skilled surgical teams can perform advanced reconstructive surgery in low-resource settings. The experience is not only relevant for wartime scenarios, but also in civilian trauma where decentralization of microsurgical service may be feasible....
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PMID: 19077643
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Little evidence was found for the hypothesis that East European countries have larger class-related health inequalities than other European regions. People's income and educational attainment both contribute to occupational health inequalities in the East as well as in the West....
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PMID: 18413432
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We have previously reported for WTC working population as a whole. Recent reports have begun to document the disproportionate burden of occupational hazards, injuries, and illnesses experienced by immigrant workers in the United States. The WTC experience of immigrants exemplified this burden but, a...
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PMID: 19092486
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Even though sick leave was less frequent among the immigrants than among the natives and the immigrant sick-leave periods were of shorter duration, the two study populations did not show differences in the causes of disability....
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PMID: 19137205
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The salience of socioeconomic status and English-language ability in explaining health differentials across immigrant groups reinforces the importance of further research on the role of these factors in contributing to the health of immigrants above and beyond the need for additional attention to th...
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PMID: 18309141
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The number of neurologists in the 'reforming and transition' countries is considerably higher than in the countries of the EU. Many neurologists from these countries would like to migrate to countries of the EU or USA, but the existing barriers are difficult to overcome....
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PMID: 18803654
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One thousand three hundred and thirty-two sets of questionnaires were collected by the study team. In this sample, in more than 90% of consultations physicians and patients agreed about meeting patient expectations. Discrepancies were more likely to be identified when the patients were consulting th...
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PMID: 18768286
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Journal of Medical Virology (80)10 2008
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The importance of hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotypes for disease progression and response to interferon-alpha-based treatment is well established. While almost all patients in the Mediterranean area are infected with HBV genotype D, HBV genotype A is dominant in Northern Europe. However, the distribu...
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PMID: 18712830
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AIDS Patient Care and STDs (22)10 2008
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We surveyed 2150 high school students in Bosnia and Herzegovina, FYR of Macedonia, Serbia, and Montenegro to examine the uptake of HIV testing and associated predictors. Among sexually active youth (n = 651), 5.9% had already been tested for HIV. In marginal logistic regression, country of origin, t...
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PMID: 18847388
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Human Biology (80)5 2008
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The sequencing of the entire mitochondrial DNA belonging to haplogroup U2d reveals that this clade is defined by four coding-region mutations at positions 1700, 4025, 11893, and 14926. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that western Eurasian haplogroup U2d appears to be a sister clade with the Indo-Paki...
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PMID: 19341323
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A total of 1506 patients were analysed. Overall, 61% of AS patients who had never received anti-TNF therapy until the time of the survey were considered candidates for anti-TNF therapy based on the clinical judgement of their rheumatologists. This proportion ranged from 40% in Slovakia to 84% in Rom...
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PMID: 18712402
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We apply this approach to more than 2,200 pottery vessels from sites in the Near East and southeastern Europe dating from the fifth to the seventh millennia bc. We show that milk was in use by the seventh millennium; this is the earliest direct evidence to date. Milking was particularly important in...
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PMID: 18690215
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Balkan endemic nephropathy (BEN), originally described in the late 1950s as a chronic tubulointerstitial kidney disease, is identified by its unique epidemiological features. The most remarkable characteristic of BEN is the focal topographical nature that characterizes its occurrence at the global,...
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PMID: 18725017
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