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		<title>Qatari study on health wins ‘best paper award’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Qatari study has won the “Best Paper Award” in a regional conference held in Amman last month. The conference on “Achieving Better Health Equity and Efficiency in the Middle East and North Africa” was organised by the Middle East and North Africa Health Policy Forum, in partnership with the World Health Organisation, the World [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qatar hospital offers private cord-blood storage facility</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 13:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Manama: Doha&#8217;s Women&#8217;s Hospital has become the first public hospital in the region to offer a private cord blood banking facility in partnership with the Virgin Health Bank Qatar Science &#038; Technology Park (QSTP), Qatari media reported. Families who have their babies delivered at the Women&#8217;s Hospital can now have a contract with Virgin Health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banaja Pharmaceuticals and Qatar Pharma Sign First Saudi-Qatari Agreement for Healthcare Cooperation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 09:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doha, 31st May 2010: BanajaBanajaSaudi Import Company Banaja Saudi Import Company, has recently signed an agreement with Qatar Infusions Factory (Qatar PharmaPharma). In the agreement Banaja Saudi Import Company will distribute Qatar PharmaPharma&#8217;s products in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), marking the first healthcare cooperation move between KSA and Qatar. The agreement is expected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qatar National Research Fund Project to help young scientists</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 13:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DOHA: The Young Scientists Research Experience Programme (YSREP), the latest addition to the ongoing projects of the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF), is set to assist in building human capacity and further foster research culture in Qatar, officials said yesterday. “YSREP supports the country’s 2030 Vision toward a knowledge-based society through funding research of young [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qatar Advisory Council wants ban on GP clinics lifted</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 12:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doha: The Advisory Council has called upon the country’s Cabinet to give directives to the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) to annul its decision to phase out by 2013 all clinics in Qatar run by general practitioners. In its ordinary session on Monday, the Council voted with an overwhelming majority in favour of a report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biomarkers research in Qatar to help early cancer detection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 11:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DOHA: Promising the “earliest detection” of diseases, the Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI) under Qatar Foundation is going ahead with a biomarker research programme. With cancer being a major issue here, the research aims to identify the molecular changes that lead to cancers, and introduce biomarkers as a diagnostic tool. “Early screening means early detection, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qatar permits checkup by Primary Health care Centers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 09:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DOHA: Qatari Nationals seeking a medical check up will now be able to do it at the Primary Health care Centers (PHCs), instead of the Medical Commission, the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) announced yesterday. The Medical Commission that conducts the mandatory health check up for expatriates had also been conducting medical tests for Qatari [...]]]></description>
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		<title>200 experts will attend  3 day Newborn Screening Symposium in Doha</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DOHA: Discussing the scope of the initiatives in the region to include screening for developmental disorders beyond the neonatal period, the third Middle East and North Africa (MENA) symposium on Newborn Screening (NBS) is set to open here from Monday. The three-day event, co-hosted by top healthcare facilities in the country, will bring-in 200 international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qatar Healthcare will get a major boost with a budgetary allocation of QR8.6bn</title>
		<link>http://biomedme.com/countries/qatar/qatar-healthcare-will-get-a-major-boost-with-a-budgetary-allocation-of-qr8-6bn_7792.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 15:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DOHA: The health sector in Qatar will get a major boost with a budgetary allocation of QR8.6bn in the current fiscal year, showing a major growth compared to last year. A senior official of the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) said that the allocations on health had gone up by 20 percent compared to last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Market Study Just Published: Oman Pharmaceuticals &amp; Healthcare Report Q1 2010</title>
		<link>http://biomedme.com/health-care/market-study-just-published-oman-pharmaceuticals-healthcare-report-q1-2010_7774.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For BMI&#8217;s Q309 Pharmaceutical and Healthcare report for Oman, we expect the total drug market to increase to US164mn, representing a respectable compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.01% in both US and local currency terms. Drug spending accounted for 0.23% of GDP and annual per capita expenditure was US$42 by the end of 2008. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UAE delegation visits Al Khor Hospital</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doha: Al Khor Hospital recently hosted, a visiting team of social care leaders from United Arab Emirates (UAE), which included Sheikh Khaled Al Kamda, General Manager of the Community Development Authority (CDA), Dubai, Sheikh Maktoum bin Buti Al Maktoum, Executive Director of CDA Community Care Sector and Mr Ghassan Khalil, Consultant Social Polices, CDA. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qatar Diabetes Association targets schoolchildren for awareness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DOHA: The volunteer’s centre of Qatar Diabetes Association (QDA) launched an awareness programme aimed at reaching the school students at the preparatory and high school level. The programme will launch a group — Friends of Diabetes — to disseminate information on the disease. The programme is in tune with QDA’s community education objectives and ensures [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fashioning devices from organic matter</title>
		<link>http://biomedme.com/biomed-business-middle-east/fashioning-devices-from-organic-matter_7667.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DOHA: The Texas A&#038;M University — Qatar welcomed biomedical engineering expert, Dr John D W Madden, as its fourth Distinguished Lecture Series Speaker on Tuesday at the University’s Engineering Building at Education City. Madden presented a lecture entitled, “Protein–based Solar Cells, Plastic Electronics and other Carbon-based Devices,” which discussed the new and existing science of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kidney Center opened in Doha Qatar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DOHA: Providing high level healing in a comforting environment, the Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) and Qtel yesterday launched the Fahad bin Jassim Kidney Center. The opening of the center comes as a fitting tribute to kick off a week-long World Kidney Day activities. “The Kidney centre aims to secure world class healthcare services as in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private medical clinics in Qatar to be closed in three years</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DOHA: All clinics in Qatar run by general practitioners will be phased out in three years, a senior official of the Supreme Council of Health (SCH) said yesterday. A specialist degree has been made mandatory for physicians operating such facilities. General practitioners running clinics will be given three years’ time to upgrade their status to [...]]]></description>
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