BACKGROUND With the deaths of hundreds of thousands and the displacement of up to three million Darfuris, the increasingly complex and on-going war in Darfur has warranted the need to investigate war-related severity and current mental health levels amongst its civilian population. The purpose of this study is to explore the association between war-related exposures and assess post-traumatic st...

Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) disease is one of the most common chronic autoimmune diseases that affect many body systems including auditory system. Objectives: To assess hearing thresholds and to ascertain types loss among Sudanese rheumatoid patients attending rheumatology clinic in Omdurman military hospital matching them with non-rheumatoid subjects. Methodology: This descriptive an...

Shortly after the discovery of X-rays by the German physicist Wilhelm C. Roentgen in November 1895, the first X-ray apparatus was installed in 1898 in Beirut at the Prussian Hospital affiliated since 1887 with the Medical School of the Syrian Protestant College founded in 1867 (later American University of Beirut in 1920). The first chest radiographs were produced after a long exposure time in ...

The Current Issue of the Sudanese Journal of Paediatrics (SJP) reflects on the engraved old heritage of the Sudanese to help the needy by highlighting the story of the Hawadith Street Initiative (HSI) [1]. Named after the street on which it was founded, which translates indirectly to “Accidents Lane”, HSI was established in 2012 to meet Sudan’s child health insurance gap by crowdfunding medical...