General Electric’s Healthcare division and Ascom Wireless Solutions announced an agreement to implement a hospital system that would send alerts from patient-monitoring devices directly to a caregiver via paging or text messaging….
First national meeting on health informatics held in Dubai
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…
Companies in UAE cut back on health insurance
Health care in Dubai has been one of the casualties of the economic slowdown, according to Dr Bilal Hashim, a manager at the Lifeline Healthcare in Jebel Ali. With no legal requirement…
Gulf health care needs reality check
While the Gulf presents one of the most robust business opportunities for healthcare operators in the world, there are many challenges impeding the sector’s growth, say executives from some of the region’s…
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…
Singapore companies contribute to development of healthcare in Saudi Arabia
Riyadh, 24 April, Saturday International Enterprise (IE) Singapore, an agency under the Ministry of Trade & Industry, organised a roundtable involving a delegation of Singapore healthcare companies in Riyadh today. Hosted by…
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…
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…
94 new cases of dengue in one week in Saudi
JEDDAH – The municipality has pointed the finger at the Mayor’s Office and called for a new strategy to tackle dengue fever after 94 new cases were detected in Jeddah last week,…
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…
United Pharmaceuticals Adopts Sermon’s ERP Solutions
United Pharmaceuticals UP, the leading global healthcare company, and Sermon Solutions announced concluding the installation of the Enterprise Resource Planning ERP solution for UP, a member of Munir Sukhtian Group. According to…
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…