The Arab Board of Medical Specializations (Arab Board) has granted accreditation to two DHA hospitals to train newly qualified graduates (residents) in general surgery. The two hospitals are Dubai Hospital and Rashid…
Dr. Joseph Kim Inovio Biomedical – Leads the Battle Against The Flu
The Inovio Biomedical products CEO — who has led pioneering efforts to develop ground breaking vaccines to battle the flu, HIV and cancer — will present today at the OneMedForum Investor Conference…
Kuwait -the new market for Healthcare IT in Middle East
KUNA has reported just two days back that Kuwait health Ministry has set aside Sixty million dinars for the expansion of bed capacity of hospitals in the country. The ministries of health…
Saudi women start to take jobs in the nursing field
Unlike 20 years ago, Saudi women are now challenging the lifestyle their mother and grandmothers had adopted and stepping into unprecedented and completely male-dominated fields. These include Engineering, Law, Aviation and even…
Pan-European prices for lab reagents and equipment
The big lab groups are now negotiating with suppliers at a Pan-European level. Jean-Paul Rigaudeau, chief executive at Unilabs (2009 sales up 8% at €400m) says the change has come in the…
GE Works to Reverse Breast-Exam Edict
Can General Electric Co. sway the government’s guidelines on breast-cancer exams? After government advisers created a political tsunami last year by saying women under 50 don’t need regular breast-cancer checkups, Washington lawmakers…
PTC Windchill Software to Enable Leading Medical Device Manufacturer to Advance Global Product Design Strategies
PTC The Product Development Company®, today announced that GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, has selected Windchill, PTC’s PLM software, and Pro/ENGINEER to replace its legacy data management and MCAD…
British Library’s PubMed Central Launched
Developed in direct consultation with researchers, UK PubMed Central (UKPMC) aims to become the information resource of choice for the UK biomedical and health research community. Helping researchers access and exploit over…
GE Healthcare IT’s Centricity® Enterprise is CCHIT Certified
BARRINGTON– GE Healthcare IT’s Centricity® Enterprise Version 6.0 is CCHIT Certified®,announced The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT®).GE’s Centricity meets the Commission’s inpatient electronic health record (EHR) criteria for 2007. Inpatient…
Ophthalmological centers in United States and Saudi Arabia announce affiliation
The Wilmer Eye Institute of Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore (USA) announced that it will collaborate in research, education and patient care with the King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital in Riyadh (Saudi…
Diabetes in elderly could triple Dementia risk
A research conducted by Alzheimer’s Research Trust scientists at King’s College London,has shown that a possible link exists between type 2 diabetes and dementia in elderly people. The study claims that diabetes,…
Lead can have lethal effects on childrens kidney.
Lead exposure is known to have undesirable effects on the kidney both in adults as well as children. Despite the elimination of lead from gasoline and paint it was discovered that most…
Personalized medicine for breast cancer patients through multigene test
Personalized medicine is showing increasing popularity in the field of oncology. It can be defined as medical care that it is based on the biological characteristics of individual patients. By using genomics…
Research shows Elderly can benefit from owning pets
Researchers have found that pets are benficial for the elderly people. Contact with pets can lessen loneliness, can lessen depression, can bring a smile among the elderly. An elderly person paired with…
Novartis Pays Proteus $24M as Part of Sensor-Based Organ-Transplant Product Partnership
Proteus Biomedical will receive $24 million worth of cash and equity investments up front as part of an exclusive, worldwide license and collaboration agreement with Novartis to develop pharmaceuticals incorporating the company’s…