Table 1.

Sample health-related newspaper articles selected by undergraduate pharmacy students

Category	Examples	Newspaper/date
Qatar health-related current event or news item	Rates of herbal drug use among a sample of 45 pregnant woman in Qatar (report from Jordan medical conference)	Al raya (Arabic) 03/11
	Opening of Virgin® stem-cell bank in Doha	Gulf Times (English) 06/10
	Supreme Council of Health project for patients to locate through their mobile phones physicians who are accepting new clients	Peninsula (English) 02/11
	Lack of child-proof containers for medications dispensed in Qatar (report from study)	Gulf Times (English) 06/11
	Prevalence of kidney failure in Qatar (report from study) Hamad General Hospital completes obesity surgery on 500th patient	Al raya (Arabic) 04/09
		Gulf Times (English) 03/11
Health-related summary or opinion-piece authored in Qatar or the Middle East	Depression management and antidepressant use in Qatar (interview with a psychiatrist)	Al raya (Arabic) 03/11
	How to protect oneself from the ill effects of health from change in weather (interview with an emergency physician)	The Peninsula (English) 03/11
International health-related current event or news item	New drug for sleeping sickness management in Africa (reprinted report from Scotland)	Al Raya (Arabic) 04/10
	Swine flu update (reprinted report from Reuters)	Qatar Tribune (English) 02/09
Health-related summary or opinion piece authored outside the Middle East, but reprinted in Qatar	Importance of smoking cessation posthospitalization for MI	Al Sharq (Arabic) 03/10
	Obesity and its impact on aging and life expectancy	Al Watan (Arabic) 03/09

Abbreviation: MI, myocardial infarction.