Israeli Hospital Offers Free Treatment to Young Lebanese

In a goodwill gesture during times of hostilities, an Israeli medical centre has offered free treatment to Lebanese children in need. // The Chaim Sheba Medical Centre in Israel announced that the its Edmond and Lily Safra Children's Hospital has been directed to extend services to Lebanese c...

AUB Medical Center Designated First 'Magnet' Facility in the Middle East

...ecision to apply for Magnet status in 2003 marked both the culmination of a long process to rebuild nursing services at the hospital after the 15-year lebanese civil war and the beginning of an ambitious campaign to transform the practice of nursing at AUBMC and to set new nursing standards for the region. P...

DNA Solves Switched at Birth Mystery ... After 57 Years

...B) January 26, 2009 -- Frederick George was raised as a Roman Catholic in a lebanese family of 13 children but should have been raised in a Scottish Presbyteria...ebanese!" George was raised the son of John and Ngaire George in a lebanese community in Dunedin, New Zealand, where he remained for 26 years until mov...

Fasting Makes Women Talk Less

... There's very little that can make women stop talking - except perhaps for fasting . A new study by lebanese speech researchers has found that the longer a woman fasts, the less she tends to talk. The study was conducted on 28 healthy women during the...

Force-feeding a Scourge Among Mauritanian Nomads

...w years older then them. They said they want to be 'a normal size' like the lebanese pop stars. 'Now Mauritanian men are looking at lebanese singers and starting to compare them with us,' said 19-year-old Aicha. ...

Loans for Cosmetic Surgery in Lebanon

...nd dollars. Only conditions being, they should be employed and under 64 years of age. Latest data seem to show that there is a huge interest among lebanese in plastic surgery and banks would like to cash in on it. The bank says it has received more than 200 calls a day about the loan since it was laun...

Australia coughs up $15m to resurrect Lebanon

... committed to assisting the government of Lebanon in its recovery efforts. I am pleased that hostilities in southern Lebanon have ceased, allowing the lebanese to rebuild their lives with the help of the international community."...

Lebanon Fears of Epidemics as the Crisis Deepens

...iver goods to the people in need", said Astrid van Genderenstort. The lebanese government's Higher Relief Committee estimates some 800,000 people are now ...on power, as we fear that in one week we might close," said a doctor at the lebanese governmental hospital. "Our problem will be with people suffering serious s...

Victims of Landmine Blasts Walks with the Help of Jaipur Foot

... last week of June in Beirut where they fitted the famous Jaipur Foot on 22 lebanese who had lost their legs in land mine explosions. "Colonel Subash Pawa...une has left behind most of its major equipment. They are sure to visit the lebanese capital again as soon as peace returns there. According to Mehta, BMV...

Australian beauty with roots in India open to acting in Bollywood

.... The first person of non-Australian parentage to win the Miss Australia title last month, 19-year-old Sabrina was born to an Indian mother and a lebanese father. Sabrina, who supports a charity called Astara Angels that works with children in Rishikesh, said she might consider offers from Bollywoo...

Lebanese in Medical Dictionary

Bilharziasis

...tion. Gallbladder Bilharziasis ... A 30 years old man presented with symptoms of Bilharziasis . ... Talk. Interview with Dr. Charles Malik, the lebanese representative to the ... Did research on bilharziasis for Rockefeller Foundation - an Egyptian disease. ... Schistosoma mansoni, S. haematobium...

Lebanese in Biological Technology

Brazilian bio-industry should impress American investors

...m this Italian wave, with more than one million descended from the Japanese wave. Other ethnic groups include: one million German descendents, 850,000 lebanese descendents, three million Portuguese descendents, two million Spanish descendents, 1.5 million African descendents, and one of the largest Jewish pop...