Background Improper test utilization is a common problem of all healthcare systems. It costs vast amount of money without improving the patient care. There are three types of this inappropriate utilization of laboratory ...

Breast cancer still remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality among women in Qatar and worldwide. More recent studies indicate that the diversity and the composition of the entire set of antigen receptors within ...

The frequency of BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutations is understudied in Arab women and there are no studies investigating BRCA1/2 mutations in Qatar. In this study, we sequenced BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes in 183 patients suspected of ...

Background: Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disease resulting in microvascular complications including diabetic retinopathy (DR). Adiponectin (ApN) is an adipokine hormone, and recent studies demonstrated that ApN ...

Background: Anaphylaxis is a serious systemic allergic disease that often mani-fests with a broad array of symptoms and leads to death if not immediately treated by the administration of epinephrine auto-injector (EAI). ...

Background: Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a clonal myeloproliferative disorder resulting from the neoplastic transformation of hematopoietic stem cells. A higher number of (54%) CML patients in Qatar failed to respond ...

Obesity is one of the major public health issues in the world with a rapid increase in its prevalence. According to the last public health report from supreme public health in Qatar in 2012, 71.8 % of the women were ...

INTRODUCTION: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a threatening agent causing lower respiratory infections (LRI) among children, where no vaccine is available. RSV expresses three surface glycoproteins, of which the ...