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Nonmedical Use of Stimulants Among Students in Jordan: A Nationwide Study.
J Addict Med
July 2024
From the Jordan University Hospital, Amman, Jordan (SA, ARA, TAH, FA, RA, RA, TH); Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (RK); Clinical Neuroscience Research Unit, Connecticut Mental Health Center, New Haven, CT (RK); Department of Biopharmaceutics and Clinical Pharmacy, School of Pharmacy, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan (MW); Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (MW); Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan (ZA, RB); and Program in Addiction Medicine, Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (JMT).
Objectives: Nonmedical use (NMU) of stimulants is an increasingly common phenomenon worldwide. Motivated by enhancing academic performance, peer pressure, and seeking pleasure, students in the Middle East are thought to be a high-risk population. This is especially important in times when the political instability in the region facilitates the production and trafficking of such substances.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAntimicrobial resistance and putative virulence genes of isolates from patients with respiratory tract infection.
Germs
March 2018
DSc, Department of Pathology-Microbiology, School of Medicine, The Jordan University, Queen Rania str. 100, Amman, Jordan.
Introduction: is a common agent causing community acquired and nosocomial respiratory tract infections, with particularly life-threatening manifestations in patients who are immunocompromised of who have cystic fibrosis. This study investigated the occurrence of extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) and metallo β-lactamase (MBL) in association with important putative virulence genes and genotypes variation among isolates from respiratory tract infection of Jordanian patients.
Methods: Over a period of 8-month, a total of 284 respiratory tract samples were obtained from patients diagnosed with respiratory tract infection while attending the Pulmonary Clinic/Intensive Care Unit, Jordan University Hospital (JUH).
Diagnosis of mesenteric panniculitis in the multi-detector computed tomography era. Association with malignancy and surgical history.
Saudi Med J
October 2017
Diagnostic Radiology Department, The Jordan University Hospital, Amman, Jordan. E-mail.
Objectives: To assess the prevalence and associations of mesenteric panniculitis (MP) using multi-detector CT (MDCT).
Methods: This retrospective study included 4758 consecutive patients who underwent abdomino-pelvic MDCT between January 2012 and December 2014 at Jordan University Hospital, Amman, Jordan. Radiological database was searched for MP diagnosis and patients with suspected MP were re-evaluated by an experienced radiologist to confirm the diagnosis.