As diabetes and obesity rates continue to climb at astronomical rates in the Middle East, future generationsare at an even greater risk for diabetes and the associated complications. Many factors are at play and it isclear that creative solutions are needed to retool provider resources in the Middle East towards preventionof diabetes and its complications while leveraging technology to maximize...

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for over two decades, the ‘information revolution’ in the middleeast has been framed overwhelmingly in terms of media, more of it,and in comparisons to mass media – from the advent of any-to-anycommunication to ad hoc conceptualizations such as ‘crowd-sourcing’ or‘citizen journalism’ – that register the multiplication of voices, channelsand eroding boundaries in spheres of communication. the re...

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following the application of simple serological tests for the diagnosis of coeliac disease (cd) in the 1980s, it gradually became clear that the prevalence of cd in different countries in the middle east, north africa and india is almost the same as that in western countries. the prevalence of cd in at-risk populations in these regions is reported to range between 3 and 20% and the prevalence i...

hepatitis a virus (hav) infection is a self-limiting disease caused by a 27-nm rna virus from the picorna virus family. its' transmission is primarily via the fecal-oral route. the disease is usually mild and anicteric in children, however the rate of the icteric form, severity, and mortality increase in adult life. the estimated case-fatality rate in age over 40 years is approximately 2%, whil...