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City Centre Rotana Doha cheer up kids with kidney diseaseCity Centre Rotana Doha’s staff, in collaboration with Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), organized a visit for kids with kidney diseases on the sidelines of the World Kidney Day, which is observed in the second week of March every year. More… |
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85pc of critical illness claims in the UAE are cancer, heart disease - dataRecent figures from insurance giant Zurich International Life showed that cancer (44 per cent) and heart disease (41 per cent) account for the majority of critical illness claims in the UAE. Across the Middle East, the average age More… |
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Zuckerberg pledges $3bn to fight diseaseFacebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan on Wednesday pledged more than $3 billion toward a plan to "cure, prevent or manage all disease within our children's lifetime." Speaking through t More… |
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Pharma and tech join to fight diseaseThe line between pharmaceuticals and technology is blurring as companies join forces to tackle chronic diseases using high-tech devices that combine biology, software and hardware. GlaxoSmithKline and Google parent Alphabet are th More… |
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Local Zika outbreaks in US ‘likely’The United States is likely to see outbreaks of the Zika virus, with perhaps dozens or scores of people affected, said Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, on Sunday. The Unit More… |
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Alarm over surge in heart diseases in GulfStress and unhealthy living are driving up levels of heart disease among the Gulf’s young Indian population, according to a visiting expert reported the Gulf Daily News (GDN), our sister publication. To r More… |
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High-cholesterol diet 'does not increase risk of heart attack'A relatively high intake of dietary cholesterol, or earing one egg every day, are not associated with an elevated risk of incident coronary heart disease, according to a recent study. The new study from the Uni More… |
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Biomarker market to top $30bn in 2020The global biomarkers market for diagnostic applications is set to reach about $30.6 billion in 2020 growing at CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) of 16 per cent from 2013 to 2020, a report said. Disease diagnostic remains the k More… |
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Cardiovascular diseases treatment in focus at Dubai meetThe advances in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease will be the focus of a conference to take place in Dubai, UAE next month. The fifth Annual Case Based Approach to Controversiers More… |
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Drive to tackle heart disease in Bahrain launchedA social media campaign aimed at raising funds to tackle one of Bahrain’s biggest killers has been launched. The initiative, from Aster DM Healthcare, is encouraging people to take a picture of anything heart-shaped and post it on Facebo More… |
