A team of biomedical scientists have discovered that a mushroom used in Chinese cooking may have cancer shrinking properties. According to researchers from New York Medical College, the Maitake mushrooms can shrink…
University HealthSystem Consortium & ECRI To Provide Health Technology Assessment Services
30th November 2009 : Oak Brook, IL and Plymouth Meeting, PA— The University HealthSystem Consortium today announced that it has signed an agreement with ECRI Institute® in Plymouth Meeting, PA, to offer…
Insomnia in Haj: Doctors say no cause for concern
MINA: With the continuous noise, floodlights which made night look like day and due to numerous movements between the holy sites, pilgrims hardly had enough time to sleep. The luckiest of them…
HMC Cardiology Centre to Be Ready Next Month
Doha, November 29 By Qatat News Aagency – Hamad Medical Corporation’s new cardiology hospital, the Qatar Heart Centre (QHC), will be operational by June 2010, Executive Director Dr Mahmoud Al-Raisi has said….
Minimally Invasive Procedure for Oncology
CHICAGO, Nov. 29 — Siemens Healthcare will introduce its comprehensive portfolio for imaging in interventional oncology at At the 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America…
Siemens Delivers Images per the Customer’s Request – ‘Images My Way’
CHICAGO, Nov. 29 At the 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), “Images, my way” will resonate throughout the Siemens Healthcare booth (#825) from November…
Philips Responds to Industry Concerns With Focus on Radiation Dose
CHICAGO, Nov. 29 2009 The Royal Philips Electronics announced its response to an industry need by showing its portfolio of products designed to manage dose radiation at this year’s 95th annual meeting…
FUJIFILM Enters Advanced Visualization Market
CHICAGO, Nov. 29 FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA is announcing its entrance into the advanced visualization space with the introduction of Synapse(TM) 3D* at This year at the Radiological Society of North America…
Acuo Technologies Enables Sharing of Imaging Studies Securely and Affordably
BLOOMINGTON, Minn., Nov. 29 /PRNewswire/ — Acuo Technologies, developers of high-performance medical image management software, data migration tools and services have announced a new product called AcuoShare that allows image sharing across…
Thalassemia: Awareness could save your future generation.
Article Written by Jihan Noor for Biomed Middle East Thalassemia which is an inherited blood disease has been a cause of concern over the past few years due to its increased incidence….
Facts about Tamiflu
Article by Dalia Ghoniem For biomed Middle East When the WHO declared H1N1 virus (swine flu ) as a pandemic, Tamiflu became the most known drug. A lot of rumors have arisen…
Diabetes Population to Double, Costs to Nearly Triple, in 25 Years
Diabetes is not only the problem of Middle East its getting alarming figures world over specially the developed countries. According to a study published today by National Changing Diabetes® Program the diabetes…
New Study Finds Men and Women May Respond Differently to Danger
CHICAGO, Nov. 29 Researchers using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study brain activation have found that men and women respond differently to positive and negative stimuli, according to a study presented…
Siemens Healthcare Unveils syngo.plaza at RSNA 2009
CHICAGO, Nov. 28 — Siemens Healthcare has unveiled its new syngo®.plaza, solution for the clinical routine. As the first Picture Archiving and Communications System (PACS) from Siemens where 2D, 3D, and 4D…
Study Shows obese people develop diabetes
The main risk factors for type 2 diabetes are obesity and a sedentary lifestyle (Lifestyle with a lack of physical exercise/activity.) . The biomedical researchers have known for many years that substances…