Most tourists hope they don’t need medical attention while travelling. Anne Laven is just the opposite; she’s travelling specifically to get treatment. Laven has multiple sclerosis and will travel next month to…
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Nauru’s Health Minister visits Frontier Lifeline
Chennai has become one of the most sought after destinations for Medical tourism in Indian these days. Reflecting this, the Health Minister of the Republic of Nauru, Mr. Mathew Batsiua visited Dr….
MENA Healthcare Infrastructure Investment & Finance Summit
As healthcare becomes prime focus in the MENA region, this 2-day international event presents itself as an unprecedented business development opportunity for every company with its core business dedicated to healthcare infrastructure,…
Siemens Puts High Definition In Motion With HD-Chest
Siemens Molecular Imaging announces HD-Chest – a new technology that reduces blur created by respiration during PET/CT studies, at the European Association of Nuclear Medicine congress from October 9-13 in Vienna, Austria….
Children’s computer and television time linked to psychological problems
Children who spend more than two hours a day at a computer or watching television are more likely than others to have psychological problems, scientists claim. Researchers found that 11-year-olds who clocked…
32-year-old Saudi woman dies of swine flu in Asir
A 32-year-old Saudi woman admitted to hospital in Asir on Sept. 26 with A(H1N1) swine flu died from the virus Sunday morning, the Ministry of Health Affairs said. “The patient was given…
Seek happiness within, says psychiatrist on Mental Health Day
Accumulating material wealth hysterically and leaving behind all the life’s natural fruits can make man go imprudent which will invariably lead to mental ill-health, says Dr Mahamood al Abry, renowned psychiatrist and…
New health guidelines
NEW rules are being drawn up to stop alternative medicine getting “out of hand” in Bahrain and other GCC countries, it was revealed yesterday. The guidelines, which are intended to check the…
US out of step with world on walking, study shows
Americans have got some walking to do if they want to catch up with the rest of the world. They are far outpaced by Australians, Asians and Europeans who walk much more,…
India must take responsibility for polio eradication
A week ago, I happened to watch three different television programs in the US on the same day. Although seemingly unrelated they were linked in a profoundly troubling way. The first was…
Highly educated people ‘could miss out on Alzheimer’s treatment’
Prof Barbara Sahakian warned that intelligent people could pass the test despite being in the early stages of the disease. The NHS drugs rationing body has proposed changing its guidance to allow…
Electronic patient record ‘must be easier for patients to opt out of’
Information stored on the database will also be limited, ministers have agreed, following concerns about possible security breaches. The database aims to hold medical details of everyone in Britain so they can…
Combination of MET with erlotinib delays lung cancer progression
A subset of lung cancer patients seem to live longer and experience delays in disease progression when a new drug that targets a cancer-associated molecule called MET is added to treatment with…
New natural dietary components inhibit breast cancer cells
Researchers at Indiana University and Methodist Research Institute have published the dramatic effects of a natural formula against breast cancer. The impressive results are found in the most recent publication of Integrative…
ESMO and Thomson Reuters launch unique portal for oncologists
A unique portal, offering oncologists access to the latest information in the field of cancer research, will be launched in 2011 by the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) in association with…