ISRAEL: FIRST ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN JOINT CONFERENCE ON MICRONUTRIENT DEFICIENCY CONDITIONS.(Brief Article)

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Robin Twite, Director of the Environment Program at the Israel-Palestinian Center for Research and Information announced that IPCRI will continue its efforts to bring Israelis and Palestinians together to work on common problems in health, and that MNDs is a very important priority area of public health concern. The conference was sponsored by IPCRI, along with the Israel and Palestinian Academies of Science and the Schools of Public Health of the Hebrew University and Al Quds Univ...

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