Healthcare | Sunday 18 October, 2015 1:55 pm

MENA MedTech Forum Unites Medical Experts to Address the Region’s Changing Face of Healthcare

The region’s largest gathering of medical-technology executives, regulators and healthcare professionals will return when the MENA MedTech Forum takes place for its second edition on the 4th and 5th of November 2015 in the UAE. Following the success of the inaugural MENA MedTech Forum in...

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Healthcare | Thursday 15 October, 2015 2:49 pm

10KSA Ambassadors Gather For Group Mammogram Session

10KSA is a holistic health awareness initiative with a focus on breast cancer. As co-founder of this initiative, Dr. ModiBatterjee is gathering a group of 10KSA Ambassadors to promote early detection screening.   In an effort to encourage women to get check ups, 10KSA Ambassadors have...

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Healthcare | Wednesday 14 October, 2015 2:31 pm

Roomz & Zahra Breast Cancer Association comes together to inspire women in KSA

Roomz by Al Mutlaq has comes together with Zahra Breast Cancer Association in a major initiative to fight breast cancer by raising awareness about the disease among women and inspire them to do more to confront cancer.  The Zahra annual campaign against breast cancer will have a new slogan...

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Healthcare | Sunday 11 October, 2015 1:12 am

Merck and Pfizer Announce Investigational Immunotherapy Avelumab Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for Metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma

Merck and Pfizer today announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted avelumab*, an investigational fully human anti-PD-L1 IgG1 monoclonal antibody, Fast Track designation for the treatment of metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC), a rare and aggressive type of skin...

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Healthcare | Saturday 10 October, 2015 3:41 am

H.E. HUMAID AL QATAMI MEETS WITH KEY SPEAKERS FROM CLEVELAND CLINIC AND MAYO CLINIC AT THE 5th ANNUAL CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE CONFERENCE IN DUBAI TODAY

Under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Minister of Finance, and President of the Dubai Health Authority, and supported by Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences, the 5th Annual Case Based Approach to Controversies in...

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Healthcare | Thursday 8 October, 2015 1:33 pm

EY participates in Alzheimer’s awareness campaign “Wanabqa”

EY Riyadh recently participated in an initiative to raise awareness about patients suffering from Alzheimer’s disease held by the Saudi Alzheimer’s Disease Association. The theme for the initiative this year was “Wanabqa”, and was held in solidarity with the World...

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Healthcare | Thursday 8 October, 2015 10:39 am

Abscessed Tooth Awareness: Are you at Risk?

What is an abscessed tooth and what causes it? An abscess is a term used to describe the collection of bacteria and their products (pus) around the causing agent which is usually the tooth and its surrounding structures.  A presenting dental abscess can be classified broadly...

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Healthcare | Wednesday 7 October, 2015 12:25 pm

‘Integrated planning resulted in Haj free of infectious diseases’

The Kingdom successfully implemented an integrated health plan during the Haj season to make the sacred areas free of communicable diseases, Health Minister Khalid Al-Falih said in Kuwait on Tuesday. The minister who was leading the Saudi delegation, was speaking at the 62nd session of the WHO...

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Healthcare | Monday 5 October, 2015 2:45 am

Al-Falih outlines Health Ministry’s rapid response during Haj 2015

Health Minister Khalid Al-Falih has expressed his deepest condolences to the families of those who died in the Mina stampede and wished a speedy recovery to the injured. In a report on the Health Ministry’s activities leading up to, and during, Haj 2015, he noted that a thorough...

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Healthcare | Friday 2 October, 2015 12:53 pm

Pampers and UNICEF Celebrate a Decade Together Helping to Save Millions of Mother’s and Babies’ Lives

An estimated 500,000 newborn lives have been saved and 100 million women and their newborns protected from the deadly disease, maternal and newborn tetanus, thanks to a ten-year long partnership between Pampers® and UNICEF that helped achieve this milestone.  The partners marked the...

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