Raed Alharbi

Majmaah University · Public Health

Simple Summary The relatively high prevalence of microbial infections and the rising resistance to traditional antibiotics are the causes of the need for revolutionary antibiotics. Nanotechnology, a technique that employs materials featuring nanometer size, has grown in popularity for therapeutic uses and is very intriguing as a means of eradicatin...

Background: Neural mobilisation technique is effective in spinal nerve rehabilitation. However, no study has reported the effect of facial nerve mobilisation in acute Bell's palsy. Objectives: The objective of our study was to evaluate the effect of facial neural mobilisation over conventional therapy in improving facial symmetry in patients wit...

Brucellosis, also called Malta fever, is a contagious disease caused by Brucella species and can affect one or more organs of the body. Globally, the number of brucellosis cases in the past five years (2016-2020) is 500,000 infections per year. However, in Saudi Arabia, infections of brucellosis are extremely low in the same past five years with a...

Background Saudi Arabia is paying a high attention to medically serve patients through advanced healthcare including: electronic health records (EHR). It is an electronic version of patient medical history that may incorporate essential administrative, clinical, laboratorial, radiological information. Locally, there were many researches and studies...

Purpose To investigate the dematiaceous fungal profile of patients with ocular mycoses attending a tertiary eye care hospital in Coimbatore, India Methods The identification of dematiaceous fungus based on their morphology, their genotypes, and the measurement of the minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) using microdilution method of routinely...

Genomes are one of the most essential sensitive molecular biomarkers that are used to be discovered in a very small amount in a sample to identify a specific type of diseases. Since genomics is the science that studies structures, interactions, and functions of all genomes, genomics approach is used to identify genomes as diseases’ biomarkers. Howe...

The main objective of the study was to analyze the stroke preventing property of resveratrol from Alternaria alternata SK. The endophytic fungus A. alternata SK was isolated from the Brinjal plant. The isolated fungus was characterized based on morphological characters and molecular methods. It was cultured in submerged cultivation and resveratrol...

Aim: Cancer is known as a condition that some cells in the body can uncontrollably proliferate and spread to other body's parts. Although various studies have shown a link between cancer and patient quality of life, this cross-sectional study has investigated the impact of different types of cancer along with treatment status on HRQoL including phy...

Usnic acid is one of the important metabolites showed cardiovascular protective properties. The main aim of the study was to analyze antioxidant and cerebral ischemia preventive role in experimental Albino rats. The amount of usnic acid in the Mycosphaerella nawae AM20 culture extract was determined by High Performance Liquid Chromatography. Antiox...

Aims: To assess the association between vitamin D deficiency and anemia among patients visiting King Khalid General Hospital in Majmaah City, Saudi Arabia. Methodology: We reviewed the medical records of 120 patients (median age, male 37.44 [±17.86] and female 43.22 [±16.23] years; range 1-96 years) who attended the King Khalid General Hospital lab...

Cardiovascular diseases, coronary heart diseases, and other noncommunicable diseases are leading causes of high mortality worldwide. Different studies have shown that these diseases are caused by abnormal lipid levels in the blood, dyslipidemia, obesity, and less physical activity. The lipid profiles of 59 patients were analyzed. Information about...

The presentation of the COVID19 has endangered several million lives worldwide causing thousands of deaths every day. Evolution of COVID19 as a pandemic calls for automated solutions for initial screening and treatment management. In addition to the thermal scanning mechanisms, findings from chest X-ray imaging examinations are reliable predictors...

Diabetes Mellitus (DM) remains a global disease and prevalent among 415 million people. Saudi Arabia is the second-highest country in the Middle East region and the seventh in the world in its prevalence rate. Population-based prevalence and incidence data are ultimate to evaluate the effects of prevention strategies for diabetes and such relevant...

Coronaviruses have been causing pandemic situations across the globe for the past two decades and the focus is on identifying suitable novel targets for antivirals and vaccine development. SARS-CoV-2 encodes a small hydrophobic envelope (E) protein that mediates envelope formation, budding, replication, and release of progeny viruses from the host....

Objective: Infantile hemiplegia due to brain injury is associated with poor attention span, which critically affects the learning and acquisition of new skills, especially among children with left-sided infantile hemiplegia (LSIH). This study aimed to improve the selective visual attention (SVA) of children with LSIH through transcranial direct cur...

Shannon’s information theoretic perspective of communication helps one to understand the storage and processing of information in these one-dimensional sequences. An information theoretic analysis of 937 available completely sequenced prokaryotic genomes and 238 eukaryotic chromosomes is presented. Information content (Id) values were used to clust...

Background and objectives: Aspergillus keratitis are in the increasing trend and reported as the second most common cause of mycotic keratitis in developing countries. The present study was designed to isolate, identify Aspergillus spp. from the keratits/corneal ulcer patients attending a tertiary care eye hospital, Coimbatore, South India and to a...

1) Telerehabilitation (TR) is a part of telemedicine involved in providing rehabilitation 15 services to people in remote locations. TR in physical therapy in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia is still 16 in its infancy and its implementation may pose different challenges in the physical therapy settings. 17 The purpose of this nationwide survey is to ex...

Purpose: Angina is well known as chest pain caused by insufficient flow of oxygen-rich blood to the cardiac muscle. Although there are several studies showing an association between depression and angina, none of these studies investigated the influence of depression on the physical and mental health of adult patients with angina, which is the over...

Purpose: Angina is well known as chest pain caused by insufficient flow of oxygen-rich blood to the cardiac muscle. Although there are several studies showing an association between depression and angina, none of these studies investigated the influence of depression on the physical and mental health of adult patients with angina, which is the over...

Biomarkers, also called biological markers, are indicators to identify a biological case or situation as well as detecting any presence of biological activities and processes. Proteins are considered as a type of biomarkers based on their characteristics. Therefore, proteomics approach is one of the most promising approaches in this field. The purp...

The aim of the study was investigate the DNA polymorphisms of Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus tamarii isolated from regional fungal keratitis cases based on random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analyses. Thirty-two A. flavus and six A. tamarii isolates were identified using conventional macroscopic and microscopic features. Five decamer prime...