Tawam Hospital, in affiliation with Johns Hopkins Medicine, has appointed Dr. Ali Ghellai Jr. as Chief of the General Surgery Division and Dr. Zuhair Shihab as Chief of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), in the Department of Critical Care Medicine.
Dr. Ghellai, who is also Acting Chairman of the Department of Surgery, holds a diploma [...]
Live kidney donation, the most recommended form of donations is regrettably less in the Arab world according to an expert. Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), recently, invited Dr Ahmed Adel, Professor of Medicine and Nephrology at Zagazig University and Secretary of the Arab Society of Nephrology, to lecture on the long-term health consequences of kidney ailments [...]
Coinciding with World Glaucoma Day 2010 (March 12th), a Glaucoma Expert in Dubai is calling for greater awareness of the risk of this disease and highlighting the need for regular screening for older citizens and residents to prevent glaucoma blindness. Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness worldwide and the number one cause of [...]
In a major initiative to promote a healthy lifestyle among students, the Supreme Council of Health will develop “Health Promoting Schools” in Qatar, in line with World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines.
In the first phase of the project, 11 Qatari schools have signed up to become “health promoting schools.” All schools in Qatar have been encouraged [...]
Over 180 of the most eminent regional pain and chronic inflammatory disorders management specialists attended the first Middle East Pain & Inflammation Academy. The two day initiative, held on the 12th and 13th of March, 2010, was organized by Pfizer Africa and Middle East and accredited as a Continuous Medical Education (CME) program by the [...]
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