The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance has recently issued prizes in the annual Biomedical Engineering Innovation, Design and Entrepreneurship Awards (BMEIdea). The contest is designed to motivate young biomedical engineers to design new products that might eventually by commercialized, something the graduates will have to deal with once in the industry. The first place [...]

ابوظبي في 16 يونيو / وام / اعلن معالي الدكتور حنيف حسن وزير الصحة أن الفحوصات المخبرية أثبتت أن مواطناً من الإمارات كان قادماً من الولايات المتحدة مصاب بانفلونزا اتش 1 ان 1 وأن حالته مستقرة ويتلقى العلاج اللازم.
وأضاف معاليه أن الجهات الصحية المختصة تابعت حالة جميع الركاب الذين وصلوا على الطائرة ذاتها القادمة من [...]

Synta Pharmaceuticals Corp. (SNTA) will see its cancer-drug venture with GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK) end within 90 days, putting the treatment further into question after a late-stage trial was stopped earlier this year amid mortality concerns.
Synta has received $130 million from Glaxo since the deal involving elesclomol was signed in 2007, and was in line to [...]

أبوظبي في 14 يونيو / وام / أصدر سمو الشيخ حمدان بن زايد آل نهيان ممثل الحاكم في المنطقة الغربية رئيس هيئة الهلال الأحمر .. قرارا بتعيين سعادة أحمد حميد المزروعي رئيسا لمجلس إدارة هيئة الهلال الأحمر .. كما أصدر سموه قرارا آخر بتعيين سعادة محمد خليفة أحمد القمزي أمينا عاما لهيئة الهلال الأحمر

June 14 Pfizer Inc., the world’s biggest drugmaker, is seeking acquisitions in emerging markets and the Middle East, and forecasts annual “double-digit growth” in the region in the next five years, a senior executive said.
“The Middle East is becoming one of our key emerging markets,” Jean-Michel Halfon, head of Pfizer’s emerging markets unit, said in [...]

اختتم مؤتمر التشخيص والعناية الطبية الذي نظمته هيئة الصحة في دبي بالتعاون مع مؤسسة اندكس للمؤتمرات والمعارض الطبية فعالياته في مركز دبي العالمي للمؤتمرات والمعارض.
استقطب المؤتمر الذي اشتمل على ثلاث مؤتمرات طبية هي مؤتمر دبي للكوارث والطواري ومؤتمر التخدير وتسكين الالم ومؤتمر العناية المركزة على مدى ثلاثة ايام اكثر اكثر من 11000 طبيب وزائر، في [...]

During the past eight years IMD, the International Medical Care and Diagnostic conference and Exhibition, proved to be a perfect venue to reach prestigious senior-level executives from all over the world specialized in healthcare: Health care purchasers, Physicians, providers, suppliers, analysts, and government officials.
More than 60 Exhibitors from all over the world made their presence [...]

After the great success achieved in 2008, Index Conferences and Exhibitions – member of Index Holding, the organizers, and in cooperation with Dubai Health AuthorityDubai Health Authority are aiming for more exhibitors, bigger space, and even more visitors and decision makers from the Health Care sector this year at the International Medical Care and Diagnostic [...]

The International Medical Care and Diagnostic (IMD) Conference and Exhibition organized by Dubai Health Authority (DHA) in collaboration with Index Conferences and Exhibitions at Dubai International Convention Center ended last Thursday.
The 3-day conference attracted over 11000 physicians and visitors while more than 5000 people visited the exhibition. The event involved three parallel conferences, i.e, Dubai [...]

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