Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy vs. Stenting Trial (CREST), a federally funded study was conducted to compare the results of traditional heart surgery vs. a new, less invasive procedure called stenting to eradicate plaques…
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Jordanian Minister of Health Visits Dubai Healthcare City
Dr. Nayef Al Fayez, Jordanian Minister of Health, today visited the premises of Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC), a member of TECOM Investments. Abdullatif AlMulla, Group Chief Executive Officer of TECOM Investments, and…
European research funders throw weight behind UK open access repository
Launched in January 2007, UKPMC is a free-to-access digital archive of full-text, peer-reviewed biomedical and life sciences research. As of February 2010, it holds over 1.7 million full text articles. The ambition…
Taconic Expands Presence in Growing Korean Market Through Distribution Agreement With Bio-Medical Sc
Taconic, a leading provider of life sciences solutions to researchers worldwide, announced it has signed a distribution agreement with Bio-Medical Science Co., Ltd. (BMS) of Seoul, Korea for the purpose of providing…
Centre for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) launches internet tool to track blood transfusions
Centre for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) has come up with a new surveillance system to track adverse reactions to blood transfusions.The Hemovigilance Module part of CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network is an…
GE Healthcare, Intel Corporation and Mayo Clinic committed to develop a new delivery care model for patients
GE Healthcare, Intel Corporation and Mayo Clinic are committed to develop a new patient centred delivery care model for patients. Mayo Clinic will conduct a research to determine if home monitoring of…
Health MIS- Direct and Indirect Benefits
Management Information system (MIS) has been defined by Weitkamp in his book ‘ Integrated Health Systems- logic, information and strategy- A Master’s Paper’ as ‘computer or linked computer systems designed to inform…
Hospitals are making a push towards Electronic Health Records
The Stimulus Bill of President Obama includes $ 19.2 billion for meaningful use of Health IT by hospital systems in United States. In order to take advantage of this financial incentive, hospitals…
NextGen Healthcare Addresses Four Critical Health IT Issues at HIMSS10
HORSHAM, Pa., Feb 25, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — At the Annual HIMSS Conference and Exhibition (HIMSS10), NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions and…
GE Healthcare takes its message to Olympic viewers
Feb 25, 2010 (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) — One of the most prominent advertisers during the Winter Olympics is hawking goods that few households will ever need:…
Half of Infection Deaths Linked Directly to Hospital Care – Study
25th feb 2010 Wall Street Journal has published the following artical which claims that there is large number of deaths which are resulted due to infection controll at the hospitals . Sepsis…
DHA holds dentistry seminar on prevention and infection control
Dubai, Feb 25th, 2010 The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) held a seminar to focus on the importance of prevention and infection control in Dentistry. Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Al Kalban, CEO of Primary…
NIH and FDA Collaborate to Speed Therapies
February 25, 2010 — US The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have announced a new partnership to speed the biomedical advances their processing time…
Arthritis cases on the rise in Qatar
DOHA: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is increasingly becoming a common problem here with majority of the sufferers being women in Qatar. Though no complete cure is available till date, latest advancements in the…
Pfizer’s experimental osteoporosis drug lasofoxifene works about as well as other – Review
According to a commentary published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Pfizer’s experimental osteoporosis drug lasofoxifene, which is awaiting U.S. regulatory approval, works about as well as currently approved…