Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC,) managed by Cleveland Clinic, organized yesterday the first symposium on perioperative care of pediatric patient in Khalidiyah Rayhaan Hotel, Abu Dhabi. The number of attendees exceeded 100…
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Senior scholar: Better take brain-dead off life-support
A member of the Board of Senior Ulema (Scholars) and Royal Court Adviser, Sheikh Abdullah Bin Sulaiman Bin Munea, has agreed that brain-dead patients should be removed from medical life-support systems. He…
Hospital food for children is ‘shockingly unhealthy’
Children receiving hospital treatment are being given meals containing “shocking” amounts of salt, sugar and saturated fat, damning new research into the quality of NHS food shows. Many of the dishes served…
More than 30 maternity and casualty units facing the axe
More than 30 hospitals have either closed major services since the General Election, or are making plans to do so, an investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has found. In addition, five NHS…
Kuwait hosts International Hospital Conference
Kuwait played hosts to the first International Hospital Conference which began on Friday. The conference, which was organized by the Universal Company to compare the excellent standards followed by Kuwaiti private hospitals…
Anti-smoking summit urges Indonesian action
An Asia Pacific summit of anti-smoking campaigners Saturday urged Indonesia to regulate its tobacco industry and called for musicians to boycott events sponsored by cigarette companies. The Asia Pacific Association for the…
Jeddah salons low on hygiene
A municipality inspector has claimed health standards are very low in beauty centers and salons in Jeddah. “Hygiene and customer health are considered the beauty centers’ responsibility,” said Amani Mahmoud, supervisor at…
CDA, DHA launch Mental Health Awareness Campaign
The Community Development Authority (CDA) in Dubai in co-operation with Dubai Health Authority (DHA) officially launched a six-month Mental Health Awareness Campaign during a ceremony held at Mirdiff City Centre yesterday (Saturday)….
Your life is decided ‘in the womb’
Consider this simple but startling proposition: the events and experiences we encounter before birth can influence us – our health and well-being, our susceptibility to disease, even our intelligence and temperament –…
NHS in kids’ weight gaffe
Thousands of parents could have wrongly been t o l d t h e i r c h i l d i s overweight because of a computer glitch, NHS bosses said…
Buckinghamshire Health Bosses Raged over Patient’s Treatment in Toilet
On Friday, in a meeting, it was heard that a hospital is treating its patients in toilet, as the wards are getting over-occupied; raged Buckinghamshire health bosses. The requirement of taking healthcare…
Neuroscience Research May Help Patients Recover from Brain Injury
New neuroscience research may hold the potential of helping people who have lost their ability to remember due to brain injury or disease. By examining how we learn and store memories, scientists…
Health 2.0 keynoters differ on health IT innovation
Two keynote speakers at the fourth annual Health 2.0 Conference yesterday – a futurist and the “godfather” of Web 2.0 – disagreed over whether innovation was happening in the healthcare industry. While…
Empire BlueCross launches online store for Medicare insurance plans
As the first wave of more than 76 million Baby Boomers become eligible for Medicare, Empire BlueCross wants to meet them where they make their buying decisions: online. The Albany, N.Y.-based Blue…
Inviragen, PharmaJet receive needle-free dengue vaccine develpoment grant
Inviragen and PharmaJet have received five year, $15.5m award from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to advance the development of…