M. Jawad Hashim

TL;DR: Communication skills needed for patient-centered care include eliciting the patient's agenda with open-ended questions, especially early on; not interrupting the patient; and engaging in focused active listening.

TL;DR: The analysis of Global Burden of Disease, 2016 data for breast cancer among women in 22 Arab countries indicates that a comprehensive plan to improve public awareness, screening, diagnosis, and treatment is required to reduce the growing burden of breast cancer in the Arab world.

TL;DR: Examination of medical students’ perceptions toward ethics and professionalism teaching and its learning and assessment methods found that medical students viewed ethics education positively and preferred clinically attuned methods for learning.

TL;DR: It is shown, in a retrospective study of a large cohort of breast cancer patients, that low MCJ expression in breast tumors predicts high risk of relapse in patients treated with chemotherapy; however,MCJ expression does not correlate with response to endocrine therapy.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that the burden of HBV/HCV-associated HCC in the Arab world is rising at a much faster rate than rest of the world and urgent public health measures are necessary to abate this trend and diminish the impact on already stretched regional healthcare systems.