Refugees are under a high-risk factor of being suffering from many different diseases due to the uncontrolled accommodations environment of the camps. This study aimed to test whether the camp's habitat affecting the physical activities of the married females as a biomarker of the adverse effects on the health management issues. 60 married females (30 refugees and 30 city residents) were recruited. Blood samples of all participants were analyzed for blood glucose, blood triglycerides, blood cholesterol, blood hemoglobin (HGb), blood heamatocrite percentage (HCT %) and other physical parameters estimated like body mass index (BMI), mean arterial pressure (MAP). Additionally, participants were screened for bacterial UTIs. Refugees married females showed a significant decrease in the blood hemoglobin concentration (gm/dl) compared with the city females (P= 0.014) and blood heamatocrite percentage (HCT %) (P= 0.0074). Also, no significant differences were observed for the other parameters between refugees married females and city married females. The UTI bacterial infection in refugees married females (21, 65.6%) was significantly higher than the infection among city resident married females (11, 34.4%) (P=0.0096). The higher incidence percentage of UTIs were caused by Gram-negative bacteria (87.5%). The most dominant pathogen which established UTIs was Escherichia coli (57%). A high-stress level of camp environment and nutritional malformation may affect the refugees married females more than the city females. Therefore, it is the international community responsibility to protect and provide life-saving assistance to all refugee women and to those that have been subjected to such situations.

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The present study was designed to study the effects of pomegranate and tamoxifen on breast cancer tumor marker (CA 15-3), aromatase enzyme, triglyceride (TG), cholesterol, and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) in mastectomy women. The results indicates that tumor marker level was increased significantly in women without treatment while the tumor marker was significantly decreased in both pomegranate-tamoxifen combination and tamoxifen group, in addition, the level of aromatase and cholesterol was significantly decreased in pomegranate-tamoxifen combination group when compared with other two remaining groups. LDH level was significantly decreased in both tamoxifen and pomegranate-tamoxifen combination groups when compared with untreated group. However, the level of TG remains unchanged in all groups.