Background: Job dissatisfaction at work has been associated with low productivity, absenteeism, high turnover, and workers reducing their hours. Little is known about job satisfaction among pharmacists in Saudi Arabia and why they are leaving their profession. This study aims to assess job satisfaction status among Saudi pharmacists working in different practice sites in Saudi Arabia and to exp...

1 Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, College of Pharmacy, Taibah University, Medina, Saudi Arabia, 2 Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt, 3 Faculty of Pharmacy, Aqaba University of Technology, Aqaba, Jordan, 4 Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Taibah University, Medina, Saudi Arabia, 5 Department of Clinical Phar...

The ant genus Meranoplus is reported for the first time from the Arabian Peninsula (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) by the new species M. pulcher sp. n., based on the worker caste. Specimens were collected from Al Sarawat and Asir Mountains of southwestern Kingdom of Saudi Arabia using pitfall traps. Meranoplus pulcher sp. n. is included in the Afrotropical M. magretii-group, with greatest similarity ...

1 Department of Pharmacognosy and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Taibah University, Al Madinah Al Munawarah 30078, Saudi Arabia 2 Department of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Assiut University, Assiut 71526, Egypt 3 Department of Natural Products and Alternative Medicine, Faculty of Pharmacy, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia 4 Department of Pharmacogno...

Disability is a complex, influential, dynamic, multidimensional challenge, and it can substantially limit major life activities of human beings and their ability to integrate/reintegrate into society. According to the World Health Organization reports almost 15% of the world's population lives with certain types of disability, of whom 2-4% experience substantial difficulties in functioning. In ...

A nationwide study was conducted in Saudi Arabia to determine if bovine ephemeral fever (BEF) was present in cattle between 1993 and 1995. The study had two components: the first was establishment of sentinel herds of cattle in some localities, the second was to conduct a nationwide serological survey. The results indicated that Saudi Arabia was free of BEF during the period of study and that t...

1 Public Health Directorate, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 2 Viral Special Pathogens Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, 3 Microbiology Laboratory, Doctor Soliman Fakeeh Hospital, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, 4 Unite des Virus Emergents UMR190 ‘‘Emergence des Pathologies Virales0, Faculté de Médecine, Marseil...

Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, London, UK (A Johansson PhD, Prof M Batty PhD); Faculty of Engineering, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK (A Johansson); Emergency Preparedness and Response Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA (K Hayashi MD); Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, Mecca, Saudi Arabia (O Al Bar PhD); All-Hazards ...

In the last three decades, Saudi Arabia witnessed rapid changes in health, education, social services, and agriculture. These changes had a profound impact on food consumption patterns, health and nutritional status, particularly on the micronutrients status of Saudis. We have reviewed the available literature on the micronutrients status in Saudi Arabia. The results reveal the need of formulat...

Riaan van der Merwe*, Till Röthig , Christian R. Voolstra, Michael A. Ochsenkühn, Sabine Lattemann and Gary L. Amy 1 Water Desalination and Reuse Center, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia 2 Red Sea Research Center, Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah U...