OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and pattern of skin disorders among female schoolchildren in primary and intermediate schools in Al-Khobar city, Eastern Saudi Arabia. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study conducted in Al-Khobar city, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the period from January-March 2003. It involved 2239 female schoolchildren randomly selected from 30 regular public and pr...

OBJECTIVE To determine the pattern of childhood dermatoses in Eastern province of Saudi Arabia (SA), in the setting of a university-affiliated hospital, and to compare this with other similar surveys conducted in SA. METHODS This is a retrospective study of pediatric patients attending the outpatient dermatology clinic and dermatology emergency room at King Fahad Hospital of the University, A...

due to uncontrolled dump of dried municipal sludge and its use by farmers as soil conditioner and/or fertilizer, an extensive research was conducted in order to determine the microbiological characteristics of municipal sludges produced at three major cities, namely, qateef, dammam and khobar in the eastern province of saudi arabia. sludge samples were collected, from sand drying beds, twice a ...

We are reporting a 25-year-old male, Egyptian ceramic worker, who presented to the Emergency Department of King Fahad University Hospital in Khobar, Saudi Arabia with a history of a ceramic piece which struck his right eye while working two days earlier. To our knowledge, this is the first case in literature, reporting an intralenticular ceramic foreign body.

MINERALOGICAL and physical characteristics of natural chromites from Oman ophiolites have been recently investigated using M6ssbauer spectrocopy (MS), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) by Al-Alawi et al. (1996). From the MS analysis together with the SEM data, they derived the chemical formula for specimens collected from two separate chromite deposits named Tawiyah...

Background and Objective: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is considered to be one of the countries with a high number of expatriates. The importance of this study lays in its approach to tackle a significant issue, which is the health of expatriate unskilled laborers who are serving the society in very vital activities such as baby-sitting, cooking and cleaning. This study was aimed at determining ...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to study the pattern, prevalence, knowledge and practice of smoking among parents of 6-15 years old schoolboys in Al-Khobar City, Saudi Arabia. METHODS This is a cross-sectional study. The methodology included the distribution of a self-administered questionnaire, which was filled out by 2964 parents of 1482 schoolboys who satisfied the selection crit...