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Qatar National Research Fund Project to help young scientists
DOHA: The Young Scientists Research Experience Programme (YSREP), the latest addition to the ongoing projects of the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), is set to assist in building human capacity and further…
Qatar Advisory Council wants ban on GP clinics lifted
Doha: The Advisory Council has called upon the country’s Cabinet to give directives to the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) to annul its decision to phase out by 2013 all clinics in…
Biomarkers research in Qatar to help early cancer detection
DOHA: Promising the “earliest detection” of diseases, the Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI) under Qatar Foundation is going ahead with a biomarker research programme. With cancer being a major issue here, the…
Qatar permits checkup by Primary Health care Centers
DOHA: Qatari Nationals seeking a medical check up will now be able to do it at the Primary Health care Centers (PHCs), instead of the Medical Commission, the Supreme Council of Health…
200 experts will attend 3 day Newborn Screening Symposium in Doha
DOHA: Discussing the scope of the initiatives in the region to include screening for developmental disorders beyond the neonatal period, the third Middle East and North Africa (MENA) symposium on Newborn Screening…
Qatar Healthcare will get a major boost with a budgetary allocation of QR8.6bn
DOHA: The health sector in Qatar will get a major boost with a budgetary allocation of QR8.6bn in the current fiscal year, showing a major growth compared to last year. A senior…
Market Study Just Published: Oman Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Report Q1 2010
For BMI’s Q309 Pharmaceutical and Healthcare report for Oman, we expect the total drug market to increase to US164mn, representing a respectable compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.01% in both US…
UAE delegation visits Al Khor Hospital
Doha: Al Khor Hospital recently hosted, a visiting team of social care leaders from United Arab Emirates (UAE), which included Sheikh Khaled Al Kamda, General Manager of the Community Development Authority (CDA),…
Qatar Diabetes Association targets schoolchildren for awareness
DOHA: The volunteer’s centre of Qatar Diabetes Association (QDA) launched an awareness programme aimed at reaching the school students at the preparatory and high school level. The programme will launch a group…
Fashioning devices from organic matter
DOHA: The Texas A&M University — Qatar welcomed biomedical engineering expert, Dr John D W Madden, as its fourth Distinguished Lecture Series Speaker on Tuesday at the University’s Engineering Building at Education…
Kidney Center opened in Doha Qatar
DOHA: Providing high level healing in a comforting environment, the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and Qtel yesterday launched the Fahad bin Jassim Kidney Center. The opening of the center comes as a…
Private medical clinics in Qatar to be closed in three years
DOHA: All clinics in Qatar run by general practitioners will be phased out in three years, a senior official of the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) said yesterday. A specialist degree has…
Experts in Qatar symposium highlight healthcare advancement
DOHA: Mortality rates have declined and people are living longer, many with chronic diseases. These changing demographics, which have profound consequences for healthcare and its delivery, according to experts at a continuing…
Survey shows 52pc Qatar residents are diabetic
DOHA: An online survey conducted by a regional research and consulting group among 165 Qatar residents suggested that a good number of them were diabetic. The survey was conducted by the UAE-based…