Dubai, United Arab Emirates: A total of 17 high-level speakers along with industry leaders, experts, and professionals from both the public and private sectors in the Middle East are set to come…
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UAE organises 61 awareness & training sessions on occupational health and safety in H1 2024
Dubai, UAE: Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) organised 61 training courses and awareness sessions on occupational health and safety during the first half of 2024, with the participation of 2,110 male…
What are National Newborn Screening Guidelines in UAE
The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) has officially launched the National Newborn Screening Guidelines to standardise and enhance the medical examination procedures for newborns across the country, aligning them with international…
Submissions open for 2nd Silk Road Global News Awards
BEIJING, 16th April, 2024 — The Belt and Road News Network (BRNN), under the chairmanship of China’s People’s Daily, has initiated an international solicitation for entries for the second iteration of the…
Muscle tissue harvested from mice cells move ‘biohybrid’ robots
Sometimes nature provides the best blueprints for building effective robots. It also can provide the best material. Billions of years of natural selection has built some pretty impressive machinery, so you can’t…
China’s vaccine development enters phase 3 trial in UAE
BEIJING — China reached an important new level of vaccine development with the start of the phase three clinical trial of an inactivated vaccine candidate against COVID-19 in the United Arab Emirates…
Skin-related pigmentation another common symptom of Coronavirus
The French National Union of Dermatologists-Venereologists (SNDV) organization has posted some recent findings that indicate that skin-related pigmentation is a common symptom throughout coronavirus patients. These types of pigmentation include pseudo-frostbite, hives,…
The one word the WHO head wants you to remember is Humility
If there is one positive to have emerged from the coronavirus pandemic, it has been the reminder that communities come together at times of crisis. It was a point Dr Tedros Adhanom…
What is a virus anyway?
Tim Philp, For the Expositor So, just what is a virus anyway? Viruses are very tiny bits of genetic material, either DNA or RNA, a related molecule, that are surrounded by a…
Man dies after taking Trump-promoted chloroquine for treating coronavirus
A man in Arizona has died after drinking a small amount of chloroquine phosphate which US President Donald Trump claimed to be a ‘game changer’. Both man 68, and his wife, 61…
1st person injected with trial vaccine for COVID-19
The World Health Organization says that at least 20 coronavirus vaccines are currently in development in the global race for a cure. The first human trial, by the Boston-based biotech firm Moderna,…
Who are the invisible infectors spreading the coronavirus?
As Coronavirus is rapidly spreading around the globe there are some facts which governments and scientists are paying attention to, to stop the spread. A science journal found that people having no…
Coronavirus can survivd on surfaces up to 3 days -Study
Coronavirus can survive on sure surfaces, similar to plastic and metal, for as much as three days, in response to new analysis that sheds mild on the soundness and viability of the…
University of California, San Francisco BioHub Panel on COVID-19 March 10, 2020
· Panelists o Joe DeRisi: UCSF’s top infectious disease researcher. Co-president of ChanZuckerberg BioHub (a JV involving UCSF / Berkeley / Stanford). Co-inventor of the chip used in SARS epidemic. o Emily…
Coronavirus (COVID-19): Symptoms, Prevention and Treatment
What is the coronavirus? Coronaviruses are types of viruses that typically affect the respiratory tracts of birds and mammals, including humans. Doctors associate them with the common cold, bronchitis, pneumonia, and severe…