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Tweet Between 2002 and 2007, number of new cancer cases in Lebanon increased by 5% annually. El Nashra news website reported “The increase can be partially attributed to improvements in methods of registering patients, and to the new inclusion by the Health Ministry of non-melanoma skin cancer into the figures, after it began to be treated [...] Tweet According to the chairman of the Saudi Consumer Protection Society (SCPS), Saudi cancer cases are 4 times world rate as a result of contaminated imported goods. Dr. Nasser Al-Tuwaim mentioned that “Cancer cases are on the rise and 35 percent of the populations have liver diseases because companies and individuals import foodstuffs that do [...] Tweet Al-Anba daily reported that Dr Hilal Al-Sayer, the Kuwaiti Minister of Health, has decided to exempt expatriate children suffering from cancer from treatment costs and charges to reduce its burden on their families. He had also referred many doctors and employees to the public prosecution after internal investigation as it proved their forgery in many [...] Tweet A medical team from The Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is going to offer its services for patients at National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) Children Hospital for the next three years. The team includes British physicians and surgeons who are going to use their experiences in cancer, blood disorders and neurosurgery not only to treat [...] Tweet According to a recent report, there is a high rate of mortalities between cancer patients in Madina. The cause of such rate is the lack of specialized hospitals, laboratories, and medical equipment needed to cure cancer patients in the city. Every year, cancer causes death to 585 of 740 patients, including killing 650 adults and [...] Tweet According to a recent study, cancer is the second cause of death in Jordan. The study was conducted by three Jordanian oncologists and it noted that 14% of recorded deaths in the kingdom, between 1996 and 2005, were due to cancer. The study reported that 33,661 of individuals in Jordan were identified with cancer between January [...] Tweet A study by the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), the largest ever to look at possible links between mobile phones and brain cancer, threw up inconclusive results but researchers said suggestions of a possible link demanded deeper examination. ‘The results really don’t allow us to conclude that there is any [...] Tweet King Abdullah and Queen Rania attended the opening of the King Hussein Cancer center (KHCC) on Monday. Funds raised at the event will support the completion of a new state-of-the-art facility to complement the existing centre and absorb the increase in demand for cancer care in the region. The new facility will consist of two buildings: One [...] Tweet Apollo Medical Centre will present super specialty consultancy services from Apollo Hospitals Group, India on May 14 and 15. The patients with Stone Disease (all types of kidney stones), prostate problems (elderly), urinary obstruction or blood in urine, infertility/impotence (erectile dysfunction), renal failure or needing transplantation, children with urinary tract disorders or birth defects, females with [...] Tweet The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that non-communicable diseases (NCD) are expected to claim the lives of 25 million people across the region annually by 2015. WHO Regional Director Hussein Gezairy said NCDs are currently responsible for over half of all deaths and over 60 per cent of the region’s disease burden, mainly in the form [...] |
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