Improving newborn health in countries exposed to political violence: An assessment of the availability, accessibility, and distribution of neonatal health services at Palestinian hospitals.

Introduction: Geopolitical segregation of Palestine has left a fragile healthcare system with an unequal distribution of services. Data from the Gaza Strip reflect an increase in infant mortality that coincided with a significant increase in neonatal mortality (12.0 to 20.

Obesity among adolescents in five Arab countries; relative to gender and age.

Objective: To determine the prevalence of overweight and obesity among adolescents in five Arab countries, relative to age and sex.

Methods: A multistage stratified random sampling technique was used to select the secondary school students from five Arab countries (Kuwait, Libya, Palestine, Syria and United Arab Emirates). The total sample was 3302 (1584 males, 1718 females).

Off-pump coronary artery bypass in multi-vessel disease: effect of ejection fraction on early and midterm mortality and morbidity.

Aim: Left ventricular function is an independent predictor of operative mortality. The outcome of myocardial revascularization is greatly affected by the severity of impairment of cardiac function. The present study was undertaken to find the early and midterm mortality and morbidity among patients with different degrees of myocardial function undergoing off-pump bypass.