The American Board of Urology (ABU) has a very distinct mission that is often misunderstood by urologists in the community. In addition, there is an enormous number of acronyms associated with the ABU. In this paper, I will attempt to explain the workings of the ABU and to define and explain the acronyms. The mission of the ABU is to act for the benefit of the public to insure a high quality, s...

1Central Department of Maternal and Child Health, Ministry of Health, Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. 2Department of Haematology, Central and Al Jazira Hospitals, Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Received: 10/04/03; accepted: 15/03/04 ABSTRACT In January 2002, a pilot programme of neonatal screening for sickle cell disease was launched in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in 3 districts of Abu Dh...

tuhaf al-uqūl is the name of a hadīth collection, the author of which is abu muhammad ḥasan ibn alī ibn ḥussein ibn shu‘bat al-ḥarrānī. he is one of the hadīth narrators of the fourth century (a.h), and according to some sayings, he was one of sheikh mufīd’s preceptors. one of the features of tuhaf al-uqūl is its containing some single hadīths, which have no equivalent in other hadīth collectio...

School for Biotechnology, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu, Chatha, Jammu-180009Jammu & Kashmir, India Division of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Shalimar, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir-190025, India Division of Plant Breeding and Genetics, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural ...