Medline Industries, Inc., the nation’s largest privately held manufacturer and distributor of healthcare supplies, announced today the signing of an exclusive agreement with Proxy Biomedical Limited to distribute its surgical mesh biomaterials for the repair and reinforcement of tissue. The agreement includes MotifMESH® and VitaMESH® products for the repair and reinforcement of hernia and other [...]

Dubai, UAE – 31 May, 2010: The winners for the Hospital Build Middle East Awards for 2010 have been announced. The winners for the five award categories are as follows: Best Physical Environment (Built) – The Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357, Egypt; Best Sustainable Hospital Project – Al Mafraq Hospital, UAE; Best Healing Environment – [...]

The Abu Dhabi Health Services healthcare facility aims to become an Eco-Baby Hospital by focusing on saving energy, using eco-friendly materials and cutting down on waste Abu Dhabi: An eco-friendly campaign to honour Earth Day has been launched by Corniche Hospital, a 235-bed Joint Commission International-accredited health care facility, that handles more than 10,000 births [...]

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 [...]

A report has shown that patient waiting times at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust have been cut by a third following the implementation of a Cisco network and telephony system. Since the deployment of the new communications tools, patients at NUH spend significantly less time waiting for treatment while doctors have increased their available time [...]

Cisco invites you to participate in a “Connect to Care” Executive Roundtable – broadcast via the Internet using TelePresence and WebEx. As the debate over health care reform in Congress continues, the challenges that confront the American health care system remain. On April 13th, meet a panel of Government and Industry leaders who are accelerating [...]

The Health and Human Services Department today awarded $267.6 million in grants to 28 non-profit organizations, bringing to a total of 60 the number of awards it has made to set up regional extension centers (RECs) to assist healthcare providers deploy electronic health record systems. The awards, announced April 6, are the second set of [...]

  NEW DELHI — The Singh family, founders of Fortis Healthcare Ltd. and Religare Enterprises Ltd., will focus on growing their healthcare business, and have put in place a key management team to handle the financial services business. The changes in the management of Religare Enterprises comes within a month of Fortis Healthcare’s purchase of [...]

HONOLULU – The owners of two bankrupt hospitals in Hawaii have announced plans to convert both to non-profits – a reorganization plan that would save as much as $6 million a year and, in the words of one official, bring them closer to the communities they serve. The Hawaii Medical Center filed plans Thursday with [...]

KOLKATA: Fortis Healthcare has decided to re-brand the 10 Wockhardt hospitals it acquired last year under the Fortis brandname from April 1. There-branding exercise will be followed by a heavy duty marketing and advertisement blitz in markets where the 10 hospitals are located. The change of brand name will also see Wockhardt hospitals adopting the [...]

   NEW DELHI: Fortis Healthcare announced on Thursday that it is buying private equity firm TPG Capital’s 23.9% stake in Singapore’s Parkway Holdings for $685.3 million (Rs 3,080 crore), supplanting Apollo Hospitals as Asia’s largest hospital chain. Chairman Malvinder Singh, a former owner along with brother Shivinder of pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy Laboratories, said the deal [...]

February 2010  Feb 26 – Feb 28, 2010  MEDITEC CLINIKA 2010 Chennai Trade Centre, Chennai, India Orbitz Exhibitions Pvt Ltd info@meditec-clinika.com http://www.meditec-clinika.com/ March 2010  Mar 4 – Mar 5, 2010 Healthcare Resource Optimization and Management The Westin Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Pacific Conferences Pte Ltd. pacific@conferences.com.sg http://www.conferences.com.sg/conf-hcm2.htm Mar 8 – Mar 12, 2010 23rd International CME [...]

Dubai 18th Feb 2010: Government healthcare projects worth Dh3.67 billion are going ahead in Dubai despite the economic slowdown and the debt issues. Dubai Health Authority (DHA) the state Authority for healthcare developments has several projects which include the Hatta Hospital, likely to be completed within two months, a rehabilitation centre for the elderly at [...]

KUWAIT: The Cabinet has approved the establishment of a new 300-bed capacity hospital for alternative medicine and rehabilitation at a total cost of KD 30 million, announced the Health Ministry Deputy Dr Ibraheem Al-Abdulhadi. The new hospital will built on the site where the current alternative medicine hospital is situated. A state-of-the art, fully equipped [...]

Patients with mild gallstone pancreatitis usually stay in the hospital for several days, waiting for the symptoms to subside, before undergoing surgery to remedy the condition. A new study from researchers at Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed) indicates patients may no longer have to wait so long for surgery and could leave the [...]