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Water-pipe smoking and serum testosterone levels in adult males in Qatar.
( European Publishing , 2019 , Article)Water-pipe (WP) smoking is the most common method of tobacco consumption in the Middle-East and is rapidly spreading on a global scale. Although, water-pipe smoking is linked to various diseases, such as emphysema and ... -
Water-Pipe Smoking Exposure Deregulates a Set of Genes Associated with Human Head and Neck Cancer Development and Prognosis.
( MDPI , 2020 , Article)Water-pipe smoking (WPS) is becoming the most popular form of tobacco use among the youth, especially in the Middle East, replacing cigarettes rapidly and becoming a major risk of tobacco addiction worldwide. Smoke from ... -
Water-pipe smoking promotes epithelial-mesenchymal transition and invasion of human breast cancer cells via ERK1/ERK2 pathways.
( BioMed Central Ltd. , 2018 , Article)With the increasing popularity of water-pipe smoking (WPS), it is critical to comprehend how WPS may affect women's health. The main goal of this study is to identify the potential outcome of WPS on human breast cancer ... -
What COVID-19 has taught the world
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2021 , Article)Background: A novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has captured global recognition in a short period of time by dramatically impacting people's everyday lives and emerged as a public health emergency. Undoubtedly, it shows that ... -
What is open-access publishing and what it means for the forensic enterprise
( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)Science is a public endeavor the results of which are intended to be shared with other scientists, professionals, and the public [1]. This is viewed as a worldwide right: Article 27 of the United Nations Declaration of ... -
What is Polypharmacy in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease? A Systematic Review
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)PurposePolypharmacy presents an increasing therapeutic challenge for physicians managing patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, there is a lack of consensus regarding the specific medication count threshold ... -
What is polypharmacy in people living with HIV/AIDS? A systematic review.
( springer link , 2022 , Other)Polypharmacy in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) is a rising morbidity that exacts hefty economic burden on health budgets in addition to other adverse clinical outcomes. Despite recent advances, uncertainty remains ... -
What is the right sequencing approach? Solo VS extended family analysis in consanguineous populations.
( Springer Nature , 2020 , Article)Testing strategies is crucial for genetics clinics and testing laboratories. In this study, we tried to compare the hit rate between solo and trio and trio plus testing and between trio and sibship testing. Finally, we ... -
What Matters Most: Determinants Associated with the Selection of Medical Residencies in Qatar
( Dove Medical Press Ltd , 2024 , Article)Purpose: There have been several studies into medical student career decision making in occidental countries (eg US, UK), but medical career selection in a Middle Eastern context has not been as well studied. This study ... -
Why mental health service delivery needs to align alongside mainstream medical services
( Elsevier , 2022 , Article)There is significant individual human suffering and economic burden because of untreated mental health and substance use disorders. There is high psychiatric morbidity in primary and secondary medical care. At least one-fifth ... -
WNT5A, β‑catenin and SUFU expression patterns, and the significance of microRNA deregulation in placentas with intrauterine growth restriction
( Spandidos Publications , 2023 , Article)Placental insufficiency is a common cause of intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR). It affects ~10% of pregnancies and increases fetal and neonatal morbidity and mortality. Although Wnt and Hh pathways are crucial for ... -
Women's Health and Well-Being in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: A Narrative Review of Achievements and Gaps in the Gulf States.
( MDPI , 2020 , Article)In 2014, United Nations member states proposed a set of sustainable development goals (SDGs) to help further the millennium development goals that they had proposed in New York in 2000. Of these 13 SDGs, Goal 3 (i.e., SDG ... -
The work of transnational forensic medicine experts in colonised zones:the Palestinian case
( Manchester University Press , 2019 , Article)This article aims to shed light on the post-mortem practices for Palestinian dead bodies when there is suspicion of human rights violations by Israeli military forces. By focusing on the case of Omran Abu Hamdieh from ... -
World Marrow Donor Association guidelines for the reporting of novel HLA alleles
( John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2023 , Article)The guidelines for the implementation and reporting of HLA nomenclature for the World Marrow Donor Association have served as a reliable standard for communication of HLA data in the hematopoietic cell transplantation ... -
Worsening baroreflex sensitivity on progression to type 2 diabetes: Localized vs. systemic inflammation and role of antidiabetic therapy
( American Physiological Society , 2020 , Article)Cardiac autonomic neuropathy (CAN) is an early cardiovascular manifestation of type 2 diabetes (T2D) that constitutes an independent risk factor for cardiovascular mortality and morbidity. Nevertheless, its underlying ... -
β-blockade prevents coronary macro- and microvascular dysfunction induced by a high salt diet and insulin resistance in the Goto–Kakizaki rat
( Portland Press Ltd , 2021 , Article)A high salt intake exacerbates insulin resistance, evoking hypertension due to systemic perivascular inflammation, oxidative-nitrosative stress and endothelial dysfunction. Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEi) ... -
الانتفاضة الفلسطينيّة الأولى كنقطة تحوّل في إعادة صياغة وكالة جسد وروح الفلسطينيّ/ة
( مركز دراسات الوحدة العربية Center of Arab Unity Studies , 2019 , Article)تتقصّى هذه المقالة التحوّلات في تشكيل جسد الفلسطيني/ة كموقع لوسم القوى الاستعماريّة الاسرائيليّة، وبالتّوازي أداة للتحرّر بيد المجتمع وقوى المقاومَة الفلسطينيّة، خاصّة خلال الانتفاضة الأولى سنة 1987 وحتى اليوم. تدّعي المقالة ...
