Publications by authors named "Fatima Darwish"

Visually impaired people face many challenges that limit their ability to perform daily tasks and interact with the surrounding world. Navigating around places is one of the biggest challenges that face visually impaired people, especially those with complete loss of vision. As the Internet of Things (IoT) concept starts to play a major role in smart cities applications, visually impaired people can be one of the benefitted clients.

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The link between the gut microbiome and obesity is not well defined. Understanding of the role of the gut microbiome in weight and health management may lead to future revolutionary changes for treating obesity. This review examined the relationship between obesity and the gut microbiome, and the role of probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics for preventing and treating obesity.

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Article Synopsis
  • Laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB) sometimes fails after a long time, and doctors want to know the best way to fix it.
  • A study looked at people who had LAGB taken out and then got a different surgery called laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) at the same time.
  • The results showed that both groups of patients (those having LSG for the first time and those who had LAGB removed) had good weight loss and few complications, meaning that the procedure was safe and effective.
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A tandem technique for the detection of very low levels E. coli within about 2h is demonstrated. The technique couples the widely employed microbial enzymatic detection methods with an immunoassay step.

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