Breast cancer is a worldwide disease resulting in many deaths. Although breast cancer incidence is lower in Sub-Saharan African countries than in developed countries, African women are more likely than women in the developed world to be diagnosed at later stages of the disease and, thus, are more likely to die from it. This is due to the lack of awareness by women, accessibility to screening me...

Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) Control Programme in Sudan adopted salt iodization as the long-term strategy in 1994. In 2000, it was found that less than 1% of households were using adequately-iodized salt. The objectives of this study were to: (i) study the coverage and variation of different geographical regions of Sudan regarding access to and use of iodized salt, (ii) explore the possibl...

BACKGROUND Over 650 million people globally are at risk of schistosomiasis infection, while more than 200 million people are infected of which the higher disease rates occur in children. Eighty three students between 6-20 years (mean 12.45 ± 3.2) from Quran School for boys in Radwan village, Gezira state were recruited to investigate for the relationship between the genetic diversity of Schisto...

Background: Hepatitis E virus (HEV) is a hepatotropic pathogen that causes significant morbidity and mortality in humans. It an important causative agent of viral hepatitis outbreaks. This study investigates the serological molecular prevalence HEV blood donors attending Central Blood Bank Wad Medani City Gezira State, Sudan.
 Methods: The adopted cross-sectional descriptive design. A stru...

Intussusception is defined by Treves in 1899 as invagination of segment bowel into adjacent usually proximal distal. It’s a common cause abdominal emergencies especially children two years age and younger. It accounts for 1 2000 infants results intestinal obstruction. Post-operative intussusception one the rare etiologies obstruction that represents 0.01 to 0.25% after laparotomies 5 -10% all e...

Introduction: Blood pressure is one of the most often measured clinical parameters, and assessment blood has a considerable impact on diagnostic decisions.
 Objectives: To establish normal reference values in Sudanese.
 Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted from September 2016 to November 2018. Eight hundred eighty-eight healthy adult Sudanese between ages 18 60 (203 men 685 ...

Abstract The site of Jebel Moya, situated in the center southern Gezira Plain southcentral Sudan, has an occupational sequence spanning at least five millennia until around 2000 years ago. Renewed excavation is shedding new light on its chronology and socioeconomic history, including activities such as burial, savanna herding, domesticated sorghum cultivation practices dating to mid-third mille...