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Cancer profile in Eastern Libya: incidence and mortality in the year 2004.
Sun, 11 Jul 2010 23:00:00 +0100 | Ann Oncol
Authors: El Mistiri M, Pirani M, El Sahli N, El Mangoush M, Attia A, Shembesh R, Habel S, El Homry F, Hamad S, Federico M PMID: 20624785 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Ann Oncol)

The reliance on unclaimed cadavers for anatomical teaching by medical schools in Africa
Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:00:00 +0100 | Anatomical Sciences Education
The study of gross Anatomy through the use of cadaveric dissections in medical schools is an essential part of the comprehensive learning of human Anatomy, and unsurprisingly, 90% of the surveyed medical schools in Africa used cadaveric dissections. Donated cadavers now make up 80% of the total cadavers in North American medical schools and all the cadavers used for dissection in the United Kingdom are donated. Because the sources of cadavers used in Africa are not clearly known, a questionnaire to gather information on cadavers used at medical schools was designed from the relevant literature and was sent by electronic mail to 123 Anatomy lecturers in 23 African countries (48 medical schools). Fourteen lecturers from 14 medical schools in ten countries responded to the questionnaires. The...

Boy who survived plane crash returns to Netherlands
Sat, 15 May 2010 13:53:00 +0100 | Los Angeles Times - Science
Ruben van Assouw, whose parents and 11-year-old brother died in the Afriqiyah Airways crash, is accompanied by an aunt and uncle who had flown to Libya to be at his bedside. The 9-year-old Dutch boy who survived the plane crash in Libya arrived back in the Netherlands on a medical evacuation flight Saturday as Dutch, U.S. and other investigators worked in Libya to determine the cause of the crash. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)

Dutch boy survives airliner crash in Libya
Wed, 12 May 2010 14:11:00 +0100 | Los Angeles Times - Science
The 10-year-old is believed to be the sole survivor after an Afriqiyah Airways Airbus 330 carrying 104 people crashes just short of the runway in Tripoli. A 10-year-old Dutch boy was believed to be the sole survivor Wednesday after a passenger jet bound from South Africa crashed in the early morning with 104 people aboard while attempting to land in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, according to rescue officials and news organizations. (Source: Los Angeles Times - Science)

How espionage and smuggling proliferate the bomb
Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:00:00 +0100 | Physics Today News Picks
The New York Review of Books: The proliferation of nuclear weapons to other countries outside the US, UK, and Canada, which jointly developed the first atomic bomb, was inevitable and had been predicted, writes Jeremy Bernstein: What had not been predicted was the extent to which it would be abetted by espionage. The German-born physicist Klaus Fuchs, who had been part of the British delegation at Los Alamos and returned to England where he worked on nuclear weapons, gave the Russians what was essentially the blueprint of the bomb the US used at Nagasaki. He is in the unique position of having helped three countries build nuclear weapons. Nor did anyone foresee that proliferation of nuclear weapons would become a commercial enterprise, which is the situation that we find ourselves in at ...

BIPAI hosting first Libyan national HIV/---- conference
Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 | Baylor College of Medicine News
The Baylor College of Medicine International Pediatric ---- Initiative is hosting the first Libyan HIV/---- conference March 15 in Benghazi to provide education on the best clinical and operational practices for care and treatment among BIPAI Network Children's Clinical Centers of Excellence. The meeting, ending March 19, is being held in conjunction with BIPAI's 12th annual network meeting and includes delegates from BIPAI centers in Libya, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania, Romania and Houston, as well as BIPAI project clinicians from Ethiopia and Mozambique. These centers provide HIV/---- care and treatment to more than 58,000 HIV-infected children and their family members. Other participants include BIPAI's network executive directors and vice presidents, Pediatric...

Lockerbie bomber: family hopes Megrahi 'will beat cancer' after release from jail
Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:26:21 +0100 | Telegraph Health
The family of Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi, the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, hopes he will beat cancer six months after he was released from jail on compassionate grounds. (Source: Telegraph Health)

Tunisia: Local Medical Tourism Attracts 250,000 Patients
Wed, 03 Feb 2010 07:51:00 +0100 | AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine
In a survey published in the French edition of the January-February issue, "African Business" reports that 250, 000 foreign patients came to Tunisia in 2009 for treatment, including from Libya, Algeria and sub-Saharan Africa. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)

New data tells us more about cancer incidence in North Africa
Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0100 | European Journal of Cancer
Abstract: Over the last few years, Cancer Registries in North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt) increased in number from one to nine, and now covers 13% of the total regional population. Their data can be considered of good or acceptable quality, according to available indicators. The pattern of risk shown by these Registries is quite unique. The total cancer burden in the North African countries is between one third and one half of what is observed in Europe. The overall incidence rate in men (world age standardised, per 100,000) ranges from 86.3 in Sétif, Algeria, to 156.1 in Garbiah, Egypt. The range is similar in women: from 80.3 in Sétif to 164.0 in Algier, both in Algeria. The case mix and the level of rates are quite homogeneous in the countries considered. The m...