Publications by authors named "Lina Abdul Samad"

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has enormous negative effects on people's lives. People with disabilities (PWDs) who have been made vulnerable and who tend to face significant barriers in accessing public services are likely to be affected even more. This study aims to shed light on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on PWDs with special attention to their ability to access public services in the West Bank region of the occupied Palestinian territory.

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Background: Eating at fast food restaurants has become a worldwide phenomenon. To understand the factors that influence such behaviour is an important part of modern nutritional research. Social media may influence human eating behaviours in ways that have yet to be investigated.

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Unlabelled: Chronic neutrophilic leukaemia is a very rare disease with diagnosis based on persistent leucocytosis >25×10/μl and monocytes <1×10/μl. The revised WHO criteria 2016 included CSF3R gene mutations as a diagnostic finding. We report the case of a 77-year-old man who was found to have asymptomatic persistent mature neutrophilic leucocytosis with monocytosis.

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