RIYADH: Princess Khuloud bint Abdul Mohsen bin Saud, who has conducted research on planting tumor cells outside the body of a patient, said a large number of breast cancer cases have been found among Saudi women aged between 20 and 40. Speaking to Arab News, she said breast cancer accounted for 24.3 percent of cancers [...]

Residents of the UAE are living longer and staying healthier, but having dramatically fewer children than they used to, according to the World Health Organisation.While life expectancy rose from 73 years in 1990 to 78 by 2007, the birth rate almost halved over the same period, from 4.4 children per woman to just 2.3, according [...]

DOHA: The number of cardiac ailment related deaths is on the rise among Nepalese workers in Qatar. The Nepalese Embassy’s yearly progress report recorded a total of 115 cardiac deaths in 2009. This is against the 107 cardiac death cases reported in the previous year. Talking to The Peninsula here yesterday, Dr Surayanath Mishra, the [...]

Doha, January 03 (QNA) – The Supreme Council of Health (SCH) has said that it received 300,000 swine flu vaccine doses from the French Health Ministry. SCH’s Director of Public Health Dr. Sheikh Mohamed bin Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani told Qatar News Agency (QNA) that the State of Qatar as part of its recent [...]