1Primary Health Care, Buraidah, Al-Qassim Region, Saudi Arabia. 2Division of Psychiatry, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 3Medical Education and Community Health Services, Al-Qassim Region, Saudi Arabia. 4Department of General Health Affairs, Al-Qassim Region, Saudi Arabia. 5Buraidah Mental Health Hospital, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia. Received: 08/08/02; accepted: 27/03/03 Pro...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study is to assess the impact of health education on diet, smoking and exercise among patients with chronic diseases (coronary artery disease, hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus) in Al Qassim Region in Saudi Arabia. METHODS We used data from a clustered experimental study in selected primary health care (PHC) centers in Al-Qassim. The study was conducted durin...

The University of the corresponding author should be Department Mathematics, College Science and Arts, Qassim University, Al Bukairiyah, Saudi Arabia.

INTRODUCTION In Saudi Arabia, road traffic accidents (RTA) are becoming a serious public health problem. Police reports are designed for legal purposes with very little information on the health consequences. Also, health system data include detailed health information, but not related or linked to the data obtained police reports. Examining the consistency of these sources is vital to build an...

Objectives: to determine the occurrences of bacterial colonization of atopic dermatitis in children of Qassim region in Saudi Arabian Methods. In a hospital-based study we collected 2 swabs, one from lesional skin and the other from a healthy skin area as healthy control from 80 children with atopic dermatitis. Isolation and identification were done by colony morphology, Gram stain and the auto...

N. Bent, H. Qassim, A. A. Tahir, D. Sych, G. Leuchs, L. L. Sánchez-Soto, E. Karimi, and R.W. Boyd Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, 150 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 Canada Max-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts, Günther-Scharowsky-Straße 1, Bau 24, 91058 Erlangen, Germany Departamento de Óptica, Facultad de Física, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain Instit...

Materials and Methods Between May 2009 – June 2012, there were 950 MRI examinations of knee, done at King Saud Hospital, Unaiza, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a teaching Hospital affiliated with Qassim University, KSA. Out of 950 cases, 737 cases were reported normal by the two consultant radiologist having 6-10 years of experience in MR reporting. The cases with degenerative changes in menisci are ...