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His Highness Shaikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, attended the graduation ceremony of the 19th batch of Dubai Medical College and 14th batch of Dubai Pharmacy College. He distributed awards to distinguished graduates and congratulated the 115 students from both colleges on their achievements, [...]
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The United Nations on Wednesday said it was “deeply concerned” about the deterioration of the health care system in the Gaza Strip due to Israeli closures of the Hamas-ruled territory.
A year after Israel’s devastating offensive in Gaza the borders of the impoverished territory remain mostly sealed, preventing hundreds of patients each month from leaving to [...]
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H. H. Sheikh Saud bin Rashid Al Mu’alla, Supreme Council member and Ruler of Umm al-Qaiwain, opened today the Falaj Al Mu’alla health centre.
The Ruler, who was accompanied by Health Minister Dr. Hanif Hassan, touredthe various units of the health facilities and briefed by health officials on the packages of health services it is delivering [...]
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Abdulrahaman Ali Bahannan, MD., Ph.D., consultant otorhinolaryngologist and academic scientific researcher, found new treatments for Glottic dDisease, using lasersurgery and radiotherapy.
According to Bahannan, endoscopic laser-assisted cordectomies classified by Remacle and Rudert (otorhinolarngologists) (type I-V cordectomies) comprise a vast range of procedures from simple vocal cord stripping or submucosal cordectomy (type I) through more extensive surgery [...]
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Low-risk Sleeve gastrectomy is most popular among morbidly obese people, a Kuwaiti surgeon said Wednesday.
The procedure involves dividing the stomach vertically into two parts without damaging it, surgical expert at Amiri Hospital Dr. Khalid Al-Anzi told KUNA.
Patients are allowed to eat most kinds of foods in small portions after the hormone that triggers hunger is [...]
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Companies could soon be asked to reduce food portions in their staff canteens as part of an initiative to tackle obesity, which now affects more than a third of all people in the Gulf.
More than 30 to 35 per cent of people in the GCC are obese, which is far higher than the 20 to [...]
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His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, UAE Minister of Finance and President of the Dubai Health Authority honoured 78 Dubai Health Authority (DHA) staff for pursuing their higher-education degrees abroad.
The post-graduates included doctors, paramedics, technicians and administrators and the felicitation ceremony took place in the Rashid Hospital Library Auditorium.
The [...]
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A variety of healthcare professionals from a range of disciplines within Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA) recently attended a two-day Incident Management for Healthcare Professionals workshop held at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City from January 17th – 18th. The workshop — which was hosted by SEHA — was run in cooperation with the Royal College [...]
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Recognised as a world-leader in healthcare technology, New Zealand’s innovative health solutions are set to support the GCC health sector as it grows a predicted 25 percent in the next two years.
Six New Zealand healthcare companies are participating at Arab Health this month, supported by New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE), the New Zealand government’s [...]
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RAK Hospital, a state-of-the-art multi-specialty healthcare facility jointly set up by the ETA Star Healthcare and the Ras Al Khaimah Government and managed by Sonnenhof Swiss Health (SSH), has successfully performed an angioplasty procedure the first of its kind in the northern emirates, outside of Sharjah. The procedure was the first-ever interventional procedure to be [...]
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