From the Department of Community Medicine (Al-Rubaii, Al-Ward) and the Department of Dermatology and Venereology (Al-Waiz), College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Bab-Al-Mu’adham, Baghdad, Iraq. Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Makram Al-Waiz, Department of Dermatology and Venereology, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, PO Box 61301, Postal Code 12114, Bab-AlMu’a...

This study determined the epidemiological, clinical and laboratory profile of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency in Baghdad (central Iraq) and compared it with previous data from Mosul (northern Iraq). We reviewed the records of 156 under-5-year-olds with G6PD deficiency admitted to 3 hospitals in Baghdad over a 6-year period. A preponderance of males was noted in both Baghdad ...

1Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq. 2Department of Community Medicine, Saddam Medical College, Saddam University, Baghdad, Iraq (Correspondence to W. A. Al-Kubaisy: [email protected]). 3Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, Al-Mustansiriyah University, Baghdad, Iraq. Received: 13/09/01; accepted: 07/04/04 ABSTRACT To determin...

1Directorate General of Preventive Medicine, Ministry of Health, Baghdad, Iraq. 2Institute of Tuberculosis and Chest Disease, Baghdad, Iraq. 3 Department of Community Medicine, Al Nahrain Medical College, Baghdad, Iraq. ABSTRACT Over a period of 6 months the effect of home visits on compliance with directly observed therapy, short course (DOTS), was studied on 480 new smear-positive tuberculosi...

a Visiting Professor to go for at least three months to Baghdad. The Ministry requested the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists to nominate some" one to go and I was invited to do so by the President in May 1955. The University of Bristol, to whom I am grateful, agreed to grant me leave of absence far three months. The British Council in Baghdad arranged for me to go to Turkey on ...

International Journal of Control Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713393989 Dahlin minimum variance self-tuning controller Lamya A. Al-Chalabi a; Fouad F. Khalil b a Department of Control and Systems Engineering, University of Technology, Baghdad, Iraq b Department of Electrical Engineering, Uni...

"Cabusnama" is an important book in the Persian literature. It was written by Prince AlZiari Onsur AlMaali Kikaoos Bin Iskander Bin Kaboos Bin Washmiger Bin Ziar in the fifth Hugri Century. The book contains a number of important pieces of economic, military, intellectual, ect. All these were written in forty four chapters. The book was presented to his son and successor Gilanshah to teach him ...

Even when American decision-makers were denying it, ordinary Iraqis in the neighborhoods of Baghdad fearfully anticipated the dangerous consequences of the U.S.-led invasion. We use two unique Iraq datasets to analyze the self-fulfilling neighborhood specific forces set loose following the U.S.-led invasion. Sectarian criminal violence by Shia militia disproportionately forced Sunni residents f...

1Department of Medicine; 2Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq (Correspondence to A.M. Al-Abbassi: [email protected]). Received: 26/06/02; accepted: 15/09/04 ABSTRACT An epidemic of cholera in Iraq was anticipated for the year 1999 and a plan of notification and treatment of cases of diarrhoea was made. This paper documents the clinical a...

Wael Khamas1*, Mohamed Al-Tikriti2, Mohanad Albayati3, Suzana Tkalcic1 and Curtis Eng4 1College of Veterinary Medicine, Western University of Health Sciences, 309 E Second Street, Pomona, CA 91766, USA 2College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, Western University of Health Sciences, 309 E Second Street, Pomona, CA 91766, USA 3Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, College of Veterinar...