To complement Dubai’s developing healthcare sector, The British University in Dubai (BUiD), the Middle East’s leading research-based postgraduate university will host the first national meeting on health informatics, which will feature talks…
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Dubai weighing two possible options for an employee healthcare scheme
Health officials in Dubai are weighing two possible options for an employee healthcare scheme, and hope that a phased introduction could begin next year. Dr Haidar al Yousuf, the head of health…
Diabetes and Cancer Linked – Biomedical Scientists
A team of biomedical scientists based have linked diabetes with cancer in women. They suggest that female patients with type 2 diabetes have up to a 25 per cent increased risk of…
Vaccination Week in Saudi begins
RIYADH: The Ministry of Health has launched a campaign to create awareness among parents and children concerning the importance of vaccination to prevent some infectious diseases. “The campaign is being held through…
Carbon nanotubes could bring about nervous system for bionic applications
Courtesy Ron Walli DOE/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Mimicking the human nervous system for bionic applications could become a reality with the help of a method developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to…
Vaccinatiion Without Needle with Nanopatch Technology
Researchers from the University of Queensland have come up with good news for people who fear getting vaccinated through painful syringes and suffer from needle phobia. The researchers have discovered a painless…
NASA, NSBRI Select Proposals To Support Health On Space Missions
WASHINGTON — NASA’s Human Research Program and the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, or NSBRI, of Houston will fund 11 proposals to help investigate questions about astronaut health and performance on future…
Microfluidic Integrated Circuit Could Help Enable Home Diagnostic Tests
As a way to simplify lab-on-a-chip devices that could offer quicker, cheaper and more portable medical tests, University of Michigan researchers have created microfluidic integrated circuits. Just as electronic circuits intelligently route…
Enigma Diagnostics Showcases the Enigma ML as a Service Provider at InnovHealth Summit 2010 in Abu Dhabi
OXFORD, England and SAN DIEGO, April 22 — Enigma Diagnostics Limited, the decentralised and point-of-care molecular diagnostics company, announced today that it will be a product provider at the InnovHealth – Middle…
Study positive for 18F-flutemetamol PET in Alzheimer’s disease
A multicenter phase 2 study has found that 18F-flutemetamol PET is a potential biomarker for AD-related amyloidosis, according to the results presented on April 16 at the American Academy of Neurology (AAN)…
Biomedical Visualization At UIC Used To Save Lives
CHICAGO (CBS) Biomedical visualization takes doctors into the 3-D world of the operating room. The software and images actually allow doctors to step inside the body of a patient, virtually touching veins,…
DSM Biomedical and CID Partnership Continues to Advance Device Deliverability with the Use of DSM ComfortCoat® Hydrophilic Coating
DSM Biomedical, leader in biomedical materials science, today announced the extension of its partnership with CID based on the use of DSM ComfortCoat® Hydrophilic coating technology on the Optima Jet Stent Delivery…
HFMA’s 2010 ANI: The Healthcare Finance Conference from 20th June
The Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) annual conference will take place from June 20 to June 23 in Nashville. Last year’s turnout was more than 4,000 people, including attendees and exhibitors. HFMA…
Dubai Unveils Autism Initiative In Partnership With Specialized Entities From The UAE And Abroad
The Dubai Early Childhood Development Centre (DECDC), an initiative by the Community Development Authority (CDA), has announced a strategic co-operation with the Child Early Intervention Medical Centre, Emirates Medical Association, Zayed University…
Mobile Cloud Users Will Top 130 Million by 2014 Says Juniper Research
By 2014, more than 130 million enterprise users will tap into the cloud to obtain, run, power or manage their mobile application, according to a new report by Juniper Research. Just who’s…