The event will kick off three marketing campaigns that will run through to April 2011 to enhance Thailand’s reputation as the “Global Centre of Excellence For Medical Tourism”. The website collects and…
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World Medical Tourism & Global Healthcare Congress Hailed a Resounding Success
West Palm Beach, Florida: Developments in the burgeoning field of medical tourism were discussed at the 3rd Annual Medical Tourism & Global Healthcare Congress, which recently took place in Los Angeles, USA….
Dell’s Cloud Cover for Max Healthcare
With the HIS and the EHR system being run on the MPLS cloud, new hospitals that Max launches will be able to roll them out by just hooking up to the cloud,…
‘Nearly one in five Jordanians suffers from allergies’
Around 18 per cent of Jordanians suffer from some type of allergy, according to health officials, who say this places a huge economic burden on the country. “The number of Jordanians who…
Demand for women-only hospitals gathers steam
A number of Saudis have demanded hospitals exclusively for women as part of a campaign on the social networking site Facebook that started earlier this week. The campaign, launched by a Saudi…
NIH awards two new grants to develop Avidocin platform
AvidBiotics today announced the receipt of two new grants totaling $1 million dollars from the National Institutes of Health that further the development of the company’s novel Avidocin™ platform for narrow spectrum…
Study finds TMS effective for long-term treatment in major depression
John O’Sullivan had struggled with bipolar depression since he was a teen. He has tried numerous types of psychotherapy and medication but nothing seemed to help for long. A salesman whose profession…
Profusion of pomegranates on display
Round, red, ripe and ready, this year’s crop of pomegranates was a hit at King Hussein Park on Thursday. Dozens of farmers from the north of Irbid down to the Southern Jordan…
Health tips from experts
A RECEPTION for visiting health and medical experts from Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand was held at the Golden Tulip hotel. Agents, local doctors and pharmacists attended the event during which experts promoted…
FDG positron emission tomography allows early diagnosis of gall bladder cancer
Researchers at the University of Granada and the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves at Granada found that the metabolic imaging diagnosis technique -based on the analysis of a…
BIOTRONIK announces European release of TI Trend Chart
BIOTRONIK SE Co. & KG, leading manufacturer of cardiovascular devices, has announced the European release of its Thoracic Impedance (TI) Trend Chart via its pioneering BIOTRONIK Home Monitoring® technology and Lumax 540…
Lantheus announces Canadian launch of ABLAVAR injection
Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc., a worldwide leader in diagnostic medical imaging, today announced the Canadian launch of ABLAVAR® (gadofosveset trisodium injection), a unique, injectable magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) blood pool imaging agent….
Scientists identify mechanism that regulate nuclear size
Proteins that import structural material and that regulate the import determine cell size. Size matters when it comes to the nucleus of a cell, and now scientists have discovered the signals that…
Moores Cancer Center files IND application for FDA approval to test Nupen
Apricus Biosciences (“Apricus Bio”) (Nasdaq: APRI), backed by a revenue generating CRO business and seeking to leverage its multi-route NexACT® drug delivery technology and internal pipeline through out-licensing partnerships, today announced that…
Food nutrition labels should be simple, on front
The food industry should provide simple, clearly-worded nutrition information on the front of food packages, according to a new report from the Institute of Medicine. The information “should focus on the nutrients…