1National Tuberculosis Control Programme, Ministry of Health and Population, Cairo, Egypt. 2Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Cairo, Cairo, Egypt. 3Public Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. ABSTRACT Treatment failure is a serious problem facing some national tuberculosis (TB) control programmes. Irregularity of treatment is a f...

1 Center for Advanced Mathematics and Physics, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan 2 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, King Khalid University, Abha 9004, Saudi Arabia 3 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, Al-Azhar University, Assiut 71511, Egypt 4 Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences Ben M’sik, Hassan I...

DEAR EDITOR, About 27 countries, mainly Arabic speaking, of different World Health Organization (WHO) regional offices in East Mediterranean Region poses a threat to World Polio Eradication Initiatives due to re‐emergence of wild polio virus (WPV) as evidenced in these countries. The different WHO regions are European Regional Office (EURO), East Mediterranean Regional Office (EMRO) and African...

Data from a cross-sectional study of 27,826 healthy children in Cairo, Egypt, were used to construct standard growth charts of head circumference and reference values of relative head circumference to length/height for each sex. The sample was collected during the Egyptian Growth Curve Project for children and adolescents in 2002. Values were obtained for each month cohort for children aged 1-2...

objective: this study aimed to describe the characteristics of iran’s child and adolescent mental health research published from 1973 to 2002. method: the articles were drawn from iranpsych, which is a national database of published research in mental health and related fields. this database gathers scientific papers on psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience published in both national and int...