King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences

National Trends in Gender Representation, Segregation, and Disparities in the Saudi Dental Workforce, 2016–2025

Introduction and aims Despite the importance of gender equity for promoting fairness and informing workforce planning, key indicators of gender equity in the Saudi dental workforce remain underexplored. This study assessed gender representation in the Saudi dental workforce from...

Cross-cultural adaptation of cancer health literacy instruments in Arabic: the CHLT-30-Arabic and CHLT-6-Arabic

Background Health literacy plays a crucial role in physical and mental health outcomes. Patients with chronic diseases, cancer patients in particular, shoulder a disproportionate burden due to limited health literacy. Limited cancer health literacy (LCHL) is a risk factor for dis...

“A Transformational redesign of the global clinical workforce decision-making processes: Novel cognitive schemes embracing modern healthcare paradigms”

BackgroundGlobal healthcare systems continue to face a persistent quality gap driven by fragmented and inconsistent clinical decision-making. Although competency-based medical education (CBME) frameworks define clinician roles, they provide limited practical guidance and tools fo...

Experiences of Saudi Adults Living with Heart Failure: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Health-Related Quality of Life

Background: Heart failure is a chronic and progressive condition that substantially affects patients’ physical, emotional, social, and spiritual well-being. Although the clinical burden of heart failure is well documented, limited qualitative evidence exists regarding how Saudi a...

Spatially-integrated Ancestry Polygenic Risk Mapping for Diabetes: A Geographic-adjusted Genetic Scoring Framework

Abstract Background: Conventional polygenic risk scores (PRSs) often fail to capture geographic and ancestry-specific variation, limiting their predictive accuracy in admixed and globally diverse populations. This study aims to develop a spatially-aware PRS (SA-PRS) framework tha...

Sphenoid fungal rhinosinusitis across the disease spectrum: a case series of non-invasive fungal ball and fatal acute invasive fungal rhinosinusitis

Introduction: Sphenoid fungal rhinosinusitis is an uncommon but clinically important entity ranging from non-invasive fungal ball to rapidly fatal acute invasive fungal rhinosinusitis. Case presentation: We report two contrasting cases of sphenoid fungal disease. The first was a...

Synthesis and computational evaluation of novel indazole-based benzamide derivatives as anti-tubercular agents via DFT, molecular docking studies

A series of indazole-based benzamide derivatives (6a–6p) were synthesized via amide cross-coupling reactions and characterized using FTIR, NMR, and HRMS techniques. Density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) studies were performed to investigate the electroni...

Role of consolidative surgery after chemotherapy in recurrent/metastatic adrenal cortical cancer (ACC): Princess Margaret Cancer Centre experience

Recurrent/Metastatic (R/M) ACC is aggressive with few effective treatment options. The role of surgery after chemotherapy remains unclear. Moreover, prognostic factors in R/M ACC are not well defined. R/M ACC patients treated at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (2002–2019) were re...