The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has awarded a $1.2 million grant to Michigan State University to evaluate the effectiveness of primary care…
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FDA files complaint for permanent injunction against Brooklyn Juice Company
At the request of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Justice today filed a complaint for permanent injunction against a Brooklyn juice company to prevent it from processing…
Wheelchairs donated for children at SMC
THE Muqabah Charity Fund yesterday donated eight wheelchairs for children’s use at the Salmaniya Medical Complex (SMC). The donation was part of the fund’s Make a Child Happy campaign, under which toys…
Coma man to fly home
AN Indian man, who slipped into a coma two months ago, will finally be flown home today after a donor came forward to pay for his travel costs. The GDN reported last…
Row over SMC ‘missing’ data
HEALTH officials said yesterday that they were carrying out an extensive search for a missing file of a patient who allegedly died of medical negligence. The family of Khadeeja Ahmed Al Daylami,…
Getting basic first aid training can save lives
A basic knowledge of first aid could “save a lot more people’s lives” according to a paramedic instructor. “If they had basic knowledge on how to stop bleeding, how to do chest…
Programme teaches students first aid
An annual Dubai Police programme aimed at school children teaches them a variety of methods in dealing with dangerous situations. “We have an annual training in all government schools and selected private…
‘Be trained in first aid’
At least one person in every family should be trained in first aid, because no-one can predict an emergency, an ambulance services manager told Gulf News. “People die because nobody knows what…
AnalizaDx SIA technology, Nanosphere Verisens assay effective for prostate cancer diagnosis
At the annual meeting of the North-Central American Urological Association, Mark Stovsky, MD, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine – Case Medical Center, and principal investigator, presented positive data combining the…
AngioDynamics reports 3% increase in net sales for fiscal 2011 first quarter
AngioDynamics (NASDAQ: ANGO), a leading provider of innovative medical devices for the minimally-invasive treatment of cancer and peripheral vascular disease, today reported financial results for the fiscal 2011 first quarter ended August…
Telemedicine Program in Demand
Maria Muniz monitors her blood pressure with the help of a visiting nurse. She admits she avoids seeing a doctor at all costs. “I got to get up early in the morning,…
Doctors Hospital announces comprehensive Breast Diagnostic Imaging Center
Women who undergo routine mammograms at Doctors Hospital now have the latest in diagnostic technology available to them through Digital Mammography, obtainable through the Hospital’s Comprehensive Breast Diagnostic Imaging Center featuring Breast…
STANLEY HEALTHCARE SOLUTIONS RELEASES LATEST SOFTWARE FOR ITS PATIENT SECURITY PLATFORM
Stanley Healthcare Solutions, a business of Stanley Black & Decker, Inc., announces that it has released the latest software for its Patient Security suite of products: the Hugs® infant protection system, Pedz™…
$2.6 Million To Develop Alzheimer’s Treatment Using Umbilical Cord Blood Cells
The National Institutes of Health has awarded a three-year, $2.6-million grant to the University of South Florida and Tampa-based biotechnology company Saneron-CCEL Therapeutics, Inc., to establish dosing and safety guidelines for transplanting…
Prediction Of Epileptic Seizures By Analyzing Brain Waves
A team of physicists, physicians and neuroscientists at the Bernstein Center of the University Freiburg did a step forward towards the ambitious goal of predicting epileptic seizures, as published in the latest…