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Feb 25, 2010 (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) — One of the most prominent advertisers during the Winter Olympics is hawking goods that few households will ever need: hand-held ultrasound imaging equipment or nationwide computer networks for medical records. The prime-time television ads by GE Healthcare, the medical technologies . . . → Read More: GE Healthcare takes its message to Olympic viewers Feb 24, 2010 – Saudi healthcare market looks quite promising with plenty of investment opportunities. Saudi Arabia needs both foreign investment and expertise to develop its healthcare system to cope with an aging but well-to-do population. Although Saudi Arabia is quite developed in terms of healthcare infrastructure in comparison to gulf countries, increasing prevalence . . . → Read More: Demand for Hospital Beds in Saudi Arabia Continue to Surge 25th feb 2010 Wall Street Journal has published the following artical which claims that there is large number of deaths which are resulted due to infection controll at the hospitals . Sepsis and pneumonia, two infections that can often be prevented with tight infection control practices in hospitals, killed 48,000 patients and added $8.1 . . . → Read More: Half of Infection Deaths Linked Directly to Hospital Care – Study Dubai, Feb 25th, 2010 The Dubai Health Authority (DHA) held a seminar to focus on the importance of prevention and infection control in Dentistry. Dr Ahmad Ibrahim Al Kalban, CEO of Primary Healthcare Sector, opened the seminar on behalf of His Excellency Qadhi Saeed Al Murooshid, Director General of the DHA. Dr. Kalban . . . → Read More: DHA holds dentistry seminar on prevention and infection control February 25, 2010 — US The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have announced a new partnership to speed the biomedical advances their processing time and movement through the regulatory process required for clinical application. The new partnership was made public yesterday in a briefing on the . . . → Read More: NIH and FDA Collaborate to Speed Therapies DOHA: Mortality rates have declined and people are living longer, many with chronic diseases. These changing demographics, which have profound consequences for healthcare and its delivery, according to experts at a continuing medical education symposium co-sponsored by Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar and Hamad Medical Corporation. “Health care is evolving and the . . . → Read More: Experts in Qatar symposium highlight healthcare advancement DOHA: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is increasingly becoming a common problem here with majority of the sufferers being women in Qatar. Though no complete cure is available till date, latest advancements in the medical science gives much promise to the patients, according to an expert. “We see patients at our clinic every day . . . → Read More: Arthritis cases on the rise in Qatar Osteoporotic Fractures Of The Spine According to a commentary published on Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, Pfizer’s experimental osteoporosis drug lasofoxifene, which is awaiting U.S. regulatory approval, works about as well as currently approved drugs, but not much better. Overall, lasofoxifene looks good, according to lead study author Dr. Steven . . . → Read More: Pfizer’s experimental osteoporosis drug lasofoxifene works about as well as other – Review A new and interesting study found that sleep is not important just for children; a mid-day nap of about 90 minutes benefits adults as well. This nap supposedly primes the brain and improves learning capacity and therefore boosts mental performance. The University of California presented the study findings at the annual meeting of the . . . → Read More: Mid-Day Nap Boosts Brain Performance: Study Acupuncture For Relief From Pregnancy Related Depression A study that included 150 women who were 12-14 weeks pregnant with major depression concluded that acupuncture might provide relief from depression when these women were randomly assigned to undergo the procedure. According to the National Centre for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, acupuncture is based on . . . → Read More: Acupuncture Spells Relief For Depression During Pregnancy CT Scan Of Brain Indicating Stroke And Haemorrhage Strangely, the incidence of strokes has been going down in the old and going up in the young, a group that was previously never considered being at high risk for the debilitating and deadly condition, caused by a blood clot or bleeding in the . . . → Read More: Stroke Numbers Surging In Young Adults: A ‘Reason To Worry’ According To Experts A U.S. National Institutes of Health draft consensus statement released a suggestion that most people who think they are lactose intolerant, may actually not be. This revelation paved a way for these individuals to continue consuming adequate quantities of dairy products to provide for their required dietary intake of calcium and vitamin D. Lactose . . . → Read More: Lactose Intolerance Poorly Understood: Experts Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Life today takes a toll even on the fittest. Keeping pace with today’s rapidly changing world and fighting competition that exists in almost every facet of life can become a major cause for stress, which manifests itself in the form of constant fatigue. For ages now, these symptoms of persistent . . . → Read More: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Bigger Battle Against Fatigue HITECH Act of 2009 On February 17, 2009 a $787 Billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 also known as “the Stimulus Bill,” was signed into law by the federal government of United States. Of this amount, $22 Billion and $19.2 Billion is intended to be used to increase the use of Electronic Health . . . → Read More: HITECH Act Nieuwegein, the Netherlands – The first head-to-head comparison of different platelet-function tests, which gauge the antiplatelet efficacy of clopidogrel, shows that just three of the six assays evaluated were able to predict the likelihood of an adverse cardiovascular event in patients undergoing elective PCI with stent implantation. But importantly, the predictive values of . . . → Read More: Un-POPULAR? Utility of platelet-function tests “modest” |
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