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Innovation in Healthcare Technology Workshop

Casablanca – Morocco
21 – 24 February 2010
Overview

Healthcare is a vital field that concerns every citizen and community. Accordingly, governments care for this field to preserve their valuable human resources. Governments achieve this goal by dedicating a big share of their financial resources, employing scientific potentialities, and utilizing technologies. Developing countries face challenges to [...]

Diet Care Flags Kuwait’s Health Issues

Diet Care, the leading provider of health and nutritional food and weight management programs, revealed yesterday that the health situation in Kuwait is dire and needs a collaborative effort in the industry to tackle it, during the IHRSA (International Health and Racquets Sportsclub Association) Kuwait Mini-Conference held at Al Corniche Club.

Diet Care uncovered its recent [...]

Extended ‘know diabetes’ Campaign Progresses

The UAE ‘know diabetes’ campaign, has now been extended until December 15th, is gaining an overwhelming and encouraging response from residents. The extension has reactivated the corporate contact program, in which participating organizations receive lectures on the awareness and management of diabetes, in addition to receiving a free health check-up. Companies located in the emirates [...]

Al Corniche Hospital Launches Breast Cancer Screening Service

Increasing its efforts to fight breast cancer — one of the most serious health care challenges in the UAE — Al Corniche Hospital in Abu Dhabi is offering free mammogram screening to its patients and community in partnership with Tawam Hospital. This new service is part of both hospitals’ commitment to improving the health of [...]

Training Workshop for Doctors and Nurses

The Ministry of Health, represented by the Department of Family and Community Health in association with the United Nations Fund for Population (UNFP), recently organized a training workshop for its doctors and nurses.

The main objective of the workshop was to prepare basic trainers so that they would, in turn, train the staff of various health [...]

Fight Against Aids Picks Up Speed

Like the rest of the world’s countries, the Sultanate yesterday organized a function to celebrate World Aids Day under the theme of ‘Universal Access and Human Rights for all people living with Aids’. The event was held under the auspices of Zahir bin Abdullah Al Abri, undersecretary at the Ministry of Justice, on the Oman [...]

Indoor Air Quality Guide

On account of climate change and as the country moves into the winter season, Health Authority-Abu Dhabi (HAAD) issued on Monday a health guidance for the public regarding the quality of  indoor air.

The guidelines provide information on how to maintain air purity and avoid pollutants which have a significant impact on human health.

“People spend about [...]

Healthcare Practitioners New Licensing System

The Supreme Council of Health (SCH) will soon introduce a new examination system for private health care practitioners seeking a license to work in Qatar.

The exams that had been conducted inside Qatar will be outsourced under the new system. The Medical Licensing Committee at SCH will soon sign an agreement with a leading international company, [...]

Degree Fraud Worries Qatar Health Panel

With the rising popularity of Qatar in the job market, an increasing number of healthcare practitioners from across the world are trying to get into the country using falsified medical documents, a senior official of the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) has said.

The Medical Licensing Department at SCH has since April detected more than 60 [...]

Relocating Middle East HQ to Dubai

Bayer Group, the German pharmaceuticals maker, is shifting its Middle East headquarters to Dubai and making an initial investment of Dh80 million in new facilities here, a senior company executive said.

Stephan Rosenthal, managing director of Bayer Middle East, told Khaleej Times that the company would complete an additional manufacturing plant in Dubai Industrial Park within [...]