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Physio Dubai 2010 to Focus on Physiotherapy Updates

The third Emirates Physiotherapy Conference – Physio Dubai 2010 – will be held from March 28 to 30 at the Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel.

The event is organized by the Emirates Physiotherapy Society, it will host internationally renowned researchers, educators, clinicians and practitioners in physiotherapy, orthopaedics, neurosciences, paediatrics and rehabilitation medicine.

The conference will highlight the role [...]

Dubai Ambulance Services Centre Available All Day

The Dubai Ambulance Services Centre has been all through the day, 24-hour standby until further notice to attend to emergencies during the unstable weather conditions.

Khalifa Hassan Bin Darrai, executive director of the Dubai Ambulance Services Centre, said the centre had been put on emergency alert and increased its daily working hours from 12 to 24 [...]

Rashid Hospital Tunnels Project Full Progress

Rashid Hospital Tunnels Project to ease traffic congestion in Bur Dubai area, is progressing at full pace.

“Some 65 per cent of the tunnel work on the project has been completed while 75 per cent of the work on the roads outside the tunnels has also been done,” said Mattar Al Tayer, Chairman of the Board [...]

Free diabetes checkups for DM staff

Dubai Municipalityin cooperation with Jocelyn Centre for Diabetes recently organized a diabetes check-up campaign, which included a programme for dieting, physical check up, free screening tests for the Municipality staff.

Medical examinations were conducted for more than 200 employees and it was revealed that 50% of them were carriers of the disease. Hamid Farooq, Consultant Director [...]

International Food Safety Conference to Focus on Quality and Regulation

The conference will address several important topics pertaining to food safety such as quality assurance, regulatory compliance and food labeling, among others, with experts from Nestlé Middle East invited to address participants – who include delegates of regional regulatory and food control bodies as well as leading industry professionals – on the company’s pioneering initiatives [...]

Education From DMI and DWTC on Cervical Cancer

Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI) and Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) recently organised a series of seminars and workshops to generate awareness about cervical cancer among their staff as part of the on-going “Everything I Can” global campaign.

The sessions aimed to educate their staff about the causes and methods of prevention and early detection of cervical [...]

Advanced Bionics to bring ClearVoice to the Middle East

Advanced Bionics recently announced the approval and subsequent launch of ClearVoice in Europe, Asia and Canada. Exhibiting at the Middle East Update in Otolaryngology Exhibition & Conference 2010, in Dubai, Advance Bionics is now launching their latest product in the Middle East.

ClearVoice is a revolutionary sound-processing strategy for high-performance hearing built on AB’s proprietary HiRes [...]

Breaking News | Hearing Loss Affects Speech Development

Dubai A senior specialist has warned that hearing loss puts a child’s normal speech and language development in jeopardy and advises any hearing impairment should be identified in the first few years of a child’s life.

Prof Anne Marie Tharpe said 40 per cent of children who have hearing loss also experience other disabilities. She said, [...]

Dubai Focusing on Growing Heart Failure Cases

Dubai A major conference in Dubai will deal with the growing problem of heart failure and its impact on people and society.

“New technology is saving more lives and people suffering from heart failure are living longer,”

The cost of care for heart failure patients is putting a big burden on the patient, the [...]

Skills Test For Dubai Surgeons

Surgeons or physicians working in Dubai will have to pass a skills test before being granted a license to practice under new rules planned by health officials.

Dubai Health Authority is planning to build a surgical skills laboratory where physicians will be required to take a test, according to a report in Khaleej Times.

“We cannot judge [...]