Medicine is flourishing at the Dead Sea

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 499-500

  Ingber, Arieh ^a,b  

^a HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Deutsches Medizinisches Zentrum Medical Center   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arthritis; Balneotherapy; Climatotherapy; Cystic fibrosis; Dead Sea; Skin diseases; Uveitis

Indexed keywords

ARTHRITIS; ATOPIC DERMATITIS; CLIMATOTHERAPY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISRAEL; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; PSORIASIS; SEA; TREATMENT INDICATION; UVEITIS; VITILIGO;

ARTHRITIS; BALNEOLOGY; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; SKIN DISEASES; UVEITIS;

EID: 33746443265     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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