1 Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia. 2 Faculty of Pharmacy, Ajman University of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates. 3 Department of Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Postgraduate Medicine, University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. 4 Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice, College of Clinical Phar...

1.—Composite Materials and Mechanics Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA. 2.—Department of Computer Science and Engineering, New York University Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA. 3.—Engineering Division, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. 4.—Dep...

Although competency-based medical education has become the standard for physician training in the West, many developing countries have not yet adopted competency-based training. In 2009 in the United Arab Emirates, the government regulatory and operational authorities for healthcare in Abu Dhabi mandated a wide-scale reform of the emirate's postgraduate residency programs to the competency-base...

1Central Department of Maternal and Child Health, Ministry of Health, Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Correspondence to H. Al Hosani: [email protected]). ABSTRACT The National Congenital Anomalies Register is a population-based register covering all births in the United Arab Emirates. We evaluated the progress of the register and determined the prevalence of congenital anomalies (CAs) and ...

The aim of this paper is to empirically explore the perception of a group of United Arab Emirates (UAE) web users towards e-commerce transactions, study their willingness to trade online, and isolate factors that drive these users towards purchase decisions. The study finds that web users largely use functional characteristics to assess the effectiveness of e-commerce websites, and are driven t...

This study examined the role of media influence and immigration on body image among Pakistani men. Attitudes toward the body were compared between those living in Pakistan ( n = 56) and those who had immigrated to the United Arab Emirates ( n = 58). Results of a factorial analysis of variance demonstrated a significant main effect of immigrant status. Pakistani men living in the United Arab Emi...

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) has caused an ongoing outbreak of severe acute respiratory tract infection in humans in the Arabian Peninsula since 2012. Dromedary camels have been implicated as possible viral reservoirs. We used serologic assays to analyze 651 dromedary camel serum samples from the United Arab Emirates; 151 of 651 samples were obtained in 2003, well bef...

Hector Vargas-Perez,1 Amine Bahi,2 Mary Rose Bufalino,3 Ryan Ting-A-Kee,1 Geith Maal-Bared,1 Jenny Lam,1 Ahmed Fahmy,1 Laura Clarke,1 Jennifer K. Blanchard,4 Brett R. Larsen,4 Scott Steffensen,4 Jean-Luc Dreyer,5 and Derek van der Kooy1,3 1Department of Molecular Genetics, Neurobiology Research Group, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, M5S3E1 Canada, 2Department of Anatomy, Faculty of Med...

OBJECTIVE To perform geographical analysis of the number of biomedical publications produced in 20 Arab countries over a 15-year period from 1987 to 2001 and to compare publication rates normalized by country population, school enrollment, adult illiteracy, and gross domestic product (GDP). METHODS This study was carried out at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al-A...

It has been a decade since emergency medicine was recognized as a specialty in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). In this short time, emergency medicine has established itself and developed rapidly in the UAE. Large, well-equipped emergency departments (EDs) are usually located in government hospitals, some of which function as regional trauma centers. Most of the larger EDs are staffed with medic...