336 June 2012, Vol. 102, No. 6 SAMJ Imprisonment and torture of doctors in Bahrain To the Editor: During the months of February and March 2011, as part of the ‘Arab Spring’, protest action and demonstrations took place in Manama, capital of the Kingdom of Bahrain. When the authorities sought to put down the action, many protesters were injured and some died of their injuries. Those who were inj...

Department of Medical Biochemistry, College of Medicine and Medical Sciences, Arabian Gulf University, Manama, Bahrain, 2 Experimental Cancer Medicine, Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, 4 Biotechnology Program, College of Postgraduate Studies, Arabian Gulf University, Mana...

* Al-Ubaydli: Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies, PO Box 496, Manama, Bahrain (e-mail: [email protected]), and Department of Economics and Mercatus Center, George Mason University. List: University of Chicago, 1126 E. 59th St., Chicago IL, 60637 (e-mail: [email protected]), and NBER. Suskind: The University of Chicago Medicine, 5841 S. Maryland Avenue, MC 1035, Chicago I...

March 2012, Vol. 102, No. 3 SAMJ 2. Sky News. Bahrain docs face jail despite torture claims. 22 November 2011. http://news.sky.com/ home/world-news/article/16115007 (accessed 17 January 2012). 3. Baldwin-Ragaven L, de Gruchy J, London L. An Ambulance of the Wrong Colour. Health Professionals, Human Rights and Ethics in South Africa. Cape Town: UCT Press, 1999. 4. Gray B, Ockelford P. Bahrain he...

To assess the satisfaction levels of graduates of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland University of Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain). The graduate survey was administered to four groups of graduates of the RCSI Bahrain who graduated between the years 2010 and 2014. The graduate survey assessed five major domains and comprised 41 items. The RCSI Bahrain opened its doors in 2004, with the first class ...

OBJECTIVE The global health professional survey is a project organized by the World Health Organization, to determine the smoking habits, knowledge and attitude towards tobacco control of health professionals in several countries around the world. This paper presents data from Kuwait and Bahrain. METHODS The survey period was between May 2000 and March 2001. A questionnaire was distributed to...

The age and gender distribution pattern of cancer patients in Bahrain and the frequency orders of the 10 most common cancers are also different from those of the GCC countries. The annual incidence rate in Bahrain increased from 12.05 during 1952-1964 to 73.6/100,00 during 1995-2004 with cross-over pattern during 1995-2004 whereby the annual male incidence rates, which were consistently higher ...

Background Lifestyle habits of physicians are of paramount importance for two reasons. Firstly, they influence and direct the physician’s own health. Secondly, it has been shown that these habits have implications on patients’ care. There is limited information on the lifestyle habits and wellbeing of physicians in Bahrain. Therefore, we set out lifestyle habits and the general wellbeing of pra...