Diagnosis of Beta-Talassaemia Carriers in the Sultanate of Oman

Background: Haemoglobinopathies are a major cause of morbidity in the Sultanate of Oman and premarital screening is being encouraged in order to reduce the number of affected births. Te identification of β-thalassaemia...

Re: Evaluation Tools in Postgraduate Medical Education–Do we need “Made in Oman” tools?

Oman Urological Society Conference 2019

Objectives: First lines of evidence have shown that metformin inhibits cancer cell growth and prevents cancer occurrence in patients with type 2 diabetes. Tis study aimed to investigate the hypothesised inhibitory effect...

Mechanisms of Host Resistance Against HIV Infection and Progression to AIDS

Since the discovery in the early eighties of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), there have been reports of people who were completely resistant to infection with...

Nasopharyngeal Salivary Gland Anlage Tumour: A rare cause of neonatal respiratory distress

A salivary gland anlage tumour (SGAT) is a very rare type of benign tumour that usually presents in early infancy with respiratory distress which is exacerbated upon feeding. We report a full-term male neonate who was re...