Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is an existential threat to global public health. The virus has been repeatedly detected in dromedary camels (Camelus dromedarius). Adult animals in many countries in the Middle East as well as in North and East Africa showed high (>90%) seroprevalence to the virus. Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus isolated from dromedaries is ...

BACKGROUND Research ethics guidelines are essential for conducting medical research. Recently, numerous attempts have been made to establish national clinical research documents in the countries of the Middle East. This article analyzes these documents. METHODS Thirteen Arab countries in the Middle East were explored for available national codes, regulations, and guidelines concerning researc...

The Middle East is a heterogeneous region with substantial variability in social development, wealth and palliative care development. The region has few democracies, strong but diverse religious affiliations, and many of the region's counties are involved in political upheavals or regional conflicts. While the global consumption of opioids has increased throughout the last 30 years, there has b...

background: in this article, we used a panel smooth transition regression model to estimate the relationship between health expenditure and income. this approach is employed to continuously model changing parameters among countries and during time. it is thus suitable for eliminating heterogeneity among countries and the variability of the relationship between gross domestic product (gdp) and h...

Introduction Grasspea (Lathyrus sativus L.) is produced as major crop in Bangladesh, China, India and Pakistan, and to a lesser extent in many countries of Europe, the Middle East, northern Africa, as well as in South America. It is extensively cultivated and naturalised in the Middle East countries of Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Syria and Lebanon and in Ethiopia, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria and Libya...

Ethical issues regarding research biobanks continue to be a topic of intense debate, especially issues of confidentiality, informed consent, and child participation. Although considerable empirical literature concerning research biobank ethics exists, very little information is available regarding the opinions of medical professionals doing genetics research from the Middle East, especially Ara...

Middle East, with more than 650 million inhabitants, has one the lowest mean donation rate in the world in the context of organ procurement from deceased donors with <2 per million population as actual deceased organ donation rate in 2014. Tissue processing and transplantation in this region are also restricted to a few countries among those representing Middle East Society for Organ Transplant...

Despite its abundant sunshine the Middle East, a region spanning latitudes from 12 N to 42 N allowing vitamin D synthesis year round, registers some of the lowest levels of vitamin D and the highest rates of hypovitaminosis D worldwide. This major public health problem affects individuals across all life stages including pregnant women, neonates, infants, children and adolescents, adults, and t...