OBJECTIVES (1) To improve quality and equity by increasing utilisation of mammography screening among Israeli Arab women. (2) To explore effectiveness of designing interventions with a combined top-down and bottom-up approach. DESIGN Retrospective study at two periods of time: 2004--intervention's preliminary stages; 2005--intervention's implementation. SETTING Maccabi Healthcare Services (...

countries. In the last few years, the geography of biomedical publications became the subject of detailed analyses.5,6 Many of these studies relied solely on PubMed for data collection.7-14 In Arab countries, one study focused primarily on the Gulf Corporation Council member countries, and demonstrated that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) occupies a leading position in terms of biomedical pub...

The transformations broadly grouped under the term Arab Spring have shaken the foundations of a variety of Middle East regimes. This POLICY BRIEF provides an overview of different cases where changes of and within the regime have taken place, as well as yet unsolved situations, with a view to the upcoming Middle East Conference. Although the lack of progress in the PalestinianIsraeli conflict a...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND We recently proposed that Lebanon could become a regional 'academic hub' through the repatriation of emigrated Lebanese physicians who would then provide clinical services in the Arab Gulf region on a locum tenens basis. The objectives of this study were to assess the willingness of Lebanese medical graduates practicing in the United States of America to relocate to Leb...

Incidence rates of congenital disorders among the 350 million inhabitants of Arab countries could be influenced via the people's demographic and cultural characteristics. Arabs usually marry at a young age and have large families. They share certain core cultural values and beliefs, with the family accepted as the central structure of society. Consanguineous marriage is favored and respected in...

Xiang-Yu Zheng1,2, Hong-Liang Zhang1,2, Yang Ruan3, Naheed Amir4, Sheikh Azimullah3, Yi Yang1, Abdu Adem3 and Jie Zhu1,2* 1 Department of Neurology, The First Hospital of Jilin University, China 2 Department of Neurobiology, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden 3 Department of Pathology , College of Basic Medical Science, Jilin University, China 4 Department of Pharmacology, United Arab Emirates Unive...

SUMMARY The love story of Majnoon Lila is well known across all levels of society in the Arab world. The story is famous in Arabic literature as well as in Arab folk stories. In this paper, the poems of Quasis are analyzed and a diagnosis of organic heart failure is made from his complaints.

BACKGROUND In the Arab world, intervention and policy response to non-communicable diseases (NCD) has been weak despite extensive epidemiological evidence highlighting the alarmingly increased prevalence of chronic diseases. Generating genetic information is one key component to promote efficient disease management strategies. This study undertook a scoping review to generate the profile of the...

BACKGROUND While international physician migration has been studied extensively, more focused and regional explorations are not commonplace. In many Arab countries, medical education is conducted in English and students/graduates seek postgraduate opportunities in other countries such as the United States (US). Eligibility for residency training in the US requires certification by the Education...

Background The role of sports in decreasing the prevalence of many diseases has led to a growing interest in the field of sport and exercise medicine. But sport and exercise medicine still remains new to the Arab world, waiting to be explored. The aim of this study is to describe and characterise sport and exercise medicine research activity in the Arab world between 2002 and 2016. Methods Th...