background: occupational exposure to percutaneous injuries is a substantial source of infections with blood-borne pathogens among health-care workers. few studies evaluated injection safety practices in saudi arabia. objective: to examine the structure and process of injection safety at primary health care level in jazan health district, to evaluate knowledge, attitudes, and practices of primar...

patient-centered model of care (pcmc) is a philosophy and mindset that requires a high level of commitment and significant adjustments in organizational structures. the patient-centered care (pcc) concept is based upon communication and involvement of both patients and their families in the treatment options and the potential outcome, thus empowering the patient and family. the pcc is a quality...

conclusions the data from this cohort indicates that most of patients diagnosed with hcc present at late tumor and liver disease stages, when prognosis is usually dismal. regular cancer surveillance in cirrhotic patients might change the outcomes. further studies with results of treatment outcomes in this community are needed. background hepatocellular carcinoma (hcc) is one of the leading caus...

Submitted by: Naif M. AlAnazy, MD, Saad A. Al-Shahwan, MD, Zeeshan Azmat, MD, Brahim Tabarki, MD. From the Division of Pediatric Neurology (AlAnazy, Al-Shahwan, Tabarki), Department of Pediatrics, and the Division of Neuroradiology (Azmat), Department of Radiology, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Address correspondence to: Dr. Brahim Tabarki, Division of Ne...

1 Department of Botany and Microbiology, Addiriyah Chair for Environmental Studies, College of Science, King Saud University, P. O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia 2 Department of Crop Science, Chungnam National University, 99 Daehak-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, 305-764, Korea 3 Visiting Professor Program (VPP), King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia * Corresponding au...

1 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia; E-Mails: [email protected] (A.M.A.-M.); [email protected] (H.J.A.-N.); [email protected] (Y.N.M.) 2 Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University, P.O. Box 426-Ibrahimia, Alexandria 21321, Egypt 3 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, King ...

Sultan Ayoub Meo 1,*, Yazeed Alsubaie 1, Zaid Almubarak 1, Hisham Almutawa 1, Yazeed AlQasem 1 and Rana Muhammed Hasanato 2 1 Department of Physiology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2925, Riyadh 11461, Saudi Arabia; [email protected] (Y.A.); [email protected] (Z.A.); [email protected] (H.A.); [email protected] (Y.A.) 2 Department of Clinical Bio-Chemis...

Methods: The present institution based cross-sectional study was done on a sample of 120 females in Hail city of Saudi Arabia. The sample was randomly selected from all the colleges of University of Hail, Saudi Arabia. For the purpose of data collection general questionnaire about the participants’ sociodemographic characteristics and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HADS) for screeni...

A. A. Attiya,1, 2 Nak Eun Cho,3 and M. A. Kutbi4 1Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Mansoura, Mansoura 35516, Egypt 2Department of Mathematics, Teachers’ College in Abha, King Khalid University, Abha, P.O. Box 249, Saudi Arabia 3Department of Applied Mathematics, Pukyong National University, Pusan 608-737, South Korea 4Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Ki...

Examination of specimens of Dicronychus Brullé in the King Saud University Museum of Arthropods, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia revealed the presence of two new species, D. latifae n. sp. and D. bushrae n. sp. In addition, the descriptions of D. talhouki Platia and Schimmel and D. brancuccii Platia and Schimmel are augmented after examination of both type material and recently collected specimens from th...