1Department of Pediatrics, Al-Jahra Hospital, Kuwait. 2Kuwait Medical Genetic Center, Kuwait (Correspondence to R.L. Al-Naggar: [email protected]). ABSTRACT We investigated major congenital abnormalities in babies born in Al Jahra Hospital, Kuwait from January 2000 to December 2001. Of 7739 live and still births born over this period, 97 babies had major congenital malformations (12.5/1000 b...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to investigate the knowledge and attitudes among pharmacists in Kuwait towards the use of herbs. METHODS Self-administered questionnaire was designed as the study instrument and distributed among 100 qualified pharmacists working in government and private pharmacies in Kuwait. RESULTS The mean age was 34.2 (SD=7.5) years. About 51% of pharmacists rep...

Young people in Kuwait constitute both the highest concentration of Internet users (estimated to be approximately 63% of all Internet users in Kuwait)and the largest sector of Kuwaiti society. Moreover, as argued in this article, young people's Internet practices are likely to stimulate the most significant changes in Kuwaiti society. This article scrutinizes a handful of descriptions by young ...

our aim was to investigate the frequency of the behaviors that are most often associated with excess weight gain in kuwaitis and to determine which gender and age groups are at highest risk for each behavior.a questionnaire developed to identify barriers to exercise in western populations was modified for use with kuwaitis and posted online during september through december 2012. data from 1370...

In this paper, a performance study was conducted to investigate single and dual-axis PV systems to generate electricity in five different sites in Kuwait. Relevant data were obtained by using two sources for validation purposes. A commercial software, PVsyst, was used to analyse the data, such as metrological data and other input parameters, and compute the performance parameters such as capaci...

The COVID-19 pandemic had a devastating effect on the global economy, and Kuwait its fair share. This study examines impact of performance banks in Kuwait. A pre-and post-COVID-19 statistical analysis was conducted between largest conventional Islamic correlation coefficient variance are at 5% level significance 95% confidence level. Additionally, comparative approach is adopted to ensure prope...

BACKGROUND Medical education is an essential domain to produce physicians with high standards of medical knowledge, skills and professionalism in medical practice. This study aimed to investigate the research progress and prospects of GCC countries in medical education during the period 1996-2013. METHODS In this study, the research papers published in various global scientific journals durin...

As part of a broader research project directed toward development of a more comprehensive software piracy model, the authors collected two sets of data from students at the Kuwait University. The software piracy instrument was translated from English to Arabic. Then, both the English version and the Arabic version were administered to college of business undergraduate students at Kuwait Univers...

A total of 935 patients with extranodal non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) diagnosed in the period between January 1985 and December 2000 in Kuwait Cancer Center, serving the whole population of Kuwait, were used to describe the clinicopathological and epidemiological features of extranodal lymphomas in Kuwait. Extranodal lymphomas accounted for 45% of all NHL observed during this time. All NHL cases f...

Purpose – This study is designed to investigate the patterns of internet use by the faculty including purposes for use, its impact on teaching and research, internet resources that they use, and the problems faced while using the internet. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire, expert-reviewed and pilot-tested, was used to collect data from the faculty coming from four colleges of Kuwai...