data for analysis. Results showed that in 2001, compared with 1998, the proportion of senior citizens without any prescription insurance coverage did not change significantly, 29% and 32%, respectively. However, the proportion of respondents with prescription drug coverage who had to share costs of prescriptions through copayments and coinsurance rose significantly, from 69% in 1998 to 89% in 2001. Between 1998 and 2001, the proportion of senior citizens using mail-order pharmacies rose significantly, from 17% to 27%, and the proportion who reported financial hardship also rose, from 19% in 1998 to 31% in 2001. Controlling for year, prescription drug use, and income, logistic regression analysis showed that respondents without any prescription insurance coverage were about 5 times more likely to report financial hardship compared with those having coverage.A court in the Yemeni capital Sana’a has handed down the death penalty to four Saudi nationals convicted of belonging to the al-Qaeda terrorist group and decapitating 14 Yemeni troops some three years ago.

According to the Arabic-language al-Masirah television network, the Specialized Criminal Court said that the convicts had been members of the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) terror group and had beheaded 14 army soldiers of the 135th Brigade following an attack against a state security center in the city of Say'un in Yemen’s Hadhramaut region back in August 2014.

Judge Mohammad Mofleh further ordered for the Saudi convicts to be executed in public and in the presence of the families of those killed, the report added.

The AQAP was established through the merger of the Saudi and