Healthcare | Wednesday 18 May, 2016 2:53 am

The Second Annual Qatar International Medical Congress Begins Today

Building on the success of last year, Qatar International Medical Congress will be taking place from May 18 to May 20, 2016 at Doha Exhibition and Convention Centre. The event amplifies the technological potential in the region by bringing the foremost minds in medicine together to discuss...

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Healthcare | Monday 16 May, 2016 7:38 am

YaSalam Restaurant Corroborates UAE Ministry’s Healthy Restaurant Initiative

YaSalam, a Bahrain-based restaurant chain that has created and launched healthy unique food concepts since 1987, supports UAE Ministry’s ‘healthy restaurant initiative’ to encourage restaurants to include healthy options in the menu.   Ministry has taken steps to...

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Healthcare | Monday 16 May, 2016 3:36 am

Julphar holds its 1st Adult Primary Care Academy

Julphar Gulf Pharmaceutical Industries initiated its first Adult Primary Care Academy meeting, which took place at the Park Hyatt hotel in Dubai on May 6th 2016. The Academy – accredited by the Ministry of Health (MOH) in partnership with the Emirates Family Medicine Society (EMA) –...

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Healthcare | Sunday 15 May, 2016 3:06 pm

GCC healthcare experts briefed on innovative technology that helps fight obesity

Innovations in medical technology along with healthy eating and regular exercise provide more effective solutions to abdominal obesity and associated risks   Experts in treating obesity organized in Dubai a workshop with the presence of physicians and specialists from the Gulf...

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Healthcare | Thursday 12 May, 2016 5:48 am

Expat government doctors’ stay in Kingdom fixed

Health Minister, Tawfiq Al-Rabiah has reportedly fixed the stay of the expatriate medical specialists and consultants working in government hospitals in the Kingdom by 10 and 15 years respectively, according to the ministry’s sources. Quoting the sources, a local daily said on Wednesday...

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Healthcare | Tuesday 10 May, 2016 3:18 pm

Medical insurers in the region are projecting significantly higher costs for 2016

The cost of employee health care benefits in the Middle East and Africa region is trending higher, driven largely by the higher cost of hospital and inpatient services, medical technology, and the overuse of services, according to a survey of medical insurers by Willis Towers Watson (NASDAQ: WLTW), ...

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Healthcare | Sunday 8 May, 2016 3:32 pm

TAKEDA’S New Treatment For Lymphoma Now Available For Patients in Saudi Arabia

 takeda Pharmaceuticals Company Limited today announced the launch of Brentuximab Vedotin, a new treatment for relapsed/refractory Hodgkin’s lymphoma, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The announcement was made at the 6th annual meeting of the Saudi Scientific Society of Blood & Marrow ...

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Healthcare | Thursday 5 May, 2016 1:22 pm

Strategic Alliances Precede the Launch of Qatar International Medical Congress

Qatar International Medical Congress (QIMC) today announced Qatar Ministry of Public Health, Hamad Medical Corporation and Primary Health Care Corporation as the strategic congress partners. Held under the patronage of His Excellency Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Prime Minister...

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Healthcare | Monday 2 May, 2016 12:29 pm

Middle East businesses encouraged to sign occupational cancer campaign pledge

Organisations across the Middle East were encouraged to sign up to a campaign to tackle work-related cancer on 27 April.    The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health’s (IOSH) No Time to Lose campaign is seeking to raise awareness of cancer-causing carcinogens in...

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Healthcare | Wednesday 20 April, 2016 3:42 am

E-Cigarette are More Harmful than the Normal Cigarette

The Anti-Smoking International Alliance -ASIA organized a seminar in Dubai aiming to spread awareness about the harmful effects of smoking and helping community to follow the required steps to quit. Fifteen speakers from 10 countries from different health, academic and educational backgrounds came...

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