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SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT - HEALTH
 Executive Office of GCC Health Ministers signs cooperation pact
Posted on 05/02/2010
Executive Office of the GCC Health Ministers and the Higher Institute for Public Health in Alexandria, Egypt signed a cooperation pact for the purpose of exchanging information and scientific cooperation in the field of public health in the Arab world as part of the 68th GCC Ministers of Health Conference.
The MoU was signed by Dr. Tawfiq Bin Ahmed Khoja, Director General of the GCC Health Ministers Executive Office and Dr. Mostafa Ibrahim Murad, Dean of the Higher Institute for Public Health
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 UAE doctors join worldwide cancer awareness campaign
Posted on 04/02/2010
The slogan of the International Union against Cancer this year is: "If you love someone, tell them they stink".
You can click on a heart-shaped button on the Union's website and send that message to someone who smokes.
The World Health Organisation (Who) believes tobacco is the single largest preventable cause of cancer in the world today. Smoking causes 80 per cent of all lung cancer deaths, including deaths from cancer of the oral cavity, larynx, oesophagus and stomach.
The Who theme
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 Stem Cell treatments to begin in the UAE soon
Posted on 04/02/2010
The Ministry of Health (MoH) has licensed a doctor to conduct stem cell transplant surgeries in the UAE for the first time.
Dr Haluk Deda, a Turkish expert in treating spinal cord injuries and brain damages through stem cell therapy, will open his clinic in Dubai Health Care City (DHCC) this month.
The arrival of Dr Haluk Deda, an expert in autologous stem cell transplant which uses stem cells from patients' own bone marrow, raises hopes for several patients here who otherwise had to either
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 Dubai to set up medical academy
Posted on 31/01/2010
Dubai Healthcare Authority (DHA), Active-M Group and Royal Philips Electronics, yesterday announced a joint venture to develop a framework for delivering and marketing a Continuous Medical Education (CME) academy.
Based in Dubai, it will offer both international and local accredited courses for all medical practitioners in the UAE and the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC). It is scheduled to open in six months.
Dr Khalil Qayed, DHA's Director of Medical Education, said: "This is a great
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 Princess Haya urges medical community to invest in prevention
Posted on 29/01/2010
Her Royal Highness Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, wife of HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai, yesterday urged the medical community to invest in prevention in a keynote speech at Leaders in Healthcare, the flagship gathering at the Arab Health Exhibition and Congress.
The focus of this year's Leaders in Healthcare was sustainable and green healthcare that would not only be environmentally friendly and
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 Dubai Health Authority unveils first facility in UAE that will help revolutionise diagnosis of cancer
Posted on 28/01/2010
The Director General of the Dubai Health Authority yesterday inaugurated the first facility in the UAE that shall help significantly improve cancer management for patients in the UAE and the region.
The state-of-the-art facility is a factory which will manufacture an injection, which is required for patients who need to undergo PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scan.
The injection has a short shelf life of only 10 hours and therefore importing it into UAE was a cumbersome process. Now,
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 Customers asked to return affected Tylenol
Posted on 19/01/2010
Consumers who have bought over-the-counter pain relief drug Tylenol have been asked to return the medicine, affected by traces of a particular chemical which gives it a ‘mouldy odour'.
It has also been reported to have caused ‘non-serious' sickness in people in the US, to the respective pharmacy and claim a safer replacement.
While no such complaint has been received in the UAE, the Ministry of Health on Saturday ordered a recall of the widely used pain and fever relief drug after the US
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 UAE expands recall of Tylenol pills after latest warning by US agency
Posted on 17/01/2010
A recall of Tylenol-brand products was expanded on Friday after US authorities warned that the manufacturer was too slow in dealing with a public-health threat. The expanded recall covers the pain-reliever and other over-the-counter drugs sold in the United Arab Emirates, the Americas and Fiji.
McNeil Consumer Healthcare, a unit of Johnson & Johnson, said it was voluntarily recalling about 500 lots of the products, which include the pain relievers Tylenol, Motrin and St Joseph, a children's
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 Zayed Military Hospital inaugurates unit for treating Pulmonary Hypertension
Posted on 13/01/2010
The Zayed Military Hospital (ZMH) has inaugurated a unit for the treatment of Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) disease, which is considered the first treatment unit in the country.
This comes under the continuous support of General H.H Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces and the direct follow-up of General Command of the Armed Forces.
The unit operates under the supervision of skilled Physicians, Nurses, Technicians
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 H1N1 vaccination to cover all HealthCare workers in Abu Dhabi
Posted on 12/01/2010
Further to the measures taken to control the spread of H1N1 infection, the Health Authority - Abu Dhabi (HAAD), the regulatory body of the healthcare sector in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, issued a circular to all healthcare facilities in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi on the H1N1 vaccination process of healthcare workers.
Healthcare facilities are to determine priority groups and organize the vaccination process to cover all its healthcare workers.
Engineer Zaid AL Siksek, CEO of HAAD said: "It is
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 Khalifa issues federal anti-tobacco law
Posted on 07/01/2010
President H.H. Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has issued federal law no 15 of 2009 banning import of tobacco and its by-products into the country unless specific standard requirements accredited in the UAE are met.
Those conditions include posting of clear word and image warnings on the box and a ban on all kinds of advertisements, promotion and sponsorship of tobacco products.
The law also prohibits smoking on modes of public transport and public closed places. Under the provisions of
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 SKMC surgeons perform first state-of-the-art awake brain surgery in the Gulf region
Posted on 29/12/2009
A multi-disciplinary team at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC) managed by Cleveland Clinic recently performed the first awake brain open surgery in the gulf region. The surgery included a removal of a tumour from the patient brain located near the brain cells responsible for vocalization and speech.
SKMC is owned and operated by SEHA, the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, which is responsible for the curative activities of all the public hospitals and clinics in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
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 Health Ministry gives details on Federal Health Authority
Posted on 28/12/2009
UAE's newly established Federal Health Authority will be responsible for the establishment, management and development of the federal government's hospitals and health centres as per the world's highest standards, according to the Minister of Health Dr Hanif Hassan Ali.
Accordingly the Authority will be responsible for the process of rehabilitation those institutes, getting international accreditation for them as well as providing medical services and development and training their medical
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 Dubai CP inaugurates first field longest ambulance inaugurated
Posted on 26/12/2009
H.H Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, on Thursday inaugurated the world's longest ambulance.
At a ceremony in Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed was briefed by Director General of the Dubai Health Authority Qadhi Saeed Al Murooshid on the capabilities and roles of the vehicle which entered the Guinness Book of Records as the world's longest ambulance as it can carry and provide rapid medical assistance to up to 44 cases in the event of major incidents, i.e. accidents
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![]() President approves the creation of a new Federal Health Authority
Posted on 23/12/2009
President HH Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has approved a law establishing the Federal Health Authority that will take over the executive responsibilities of the Ministry of Health. The Ministry will now focus purely on legislation and regulation.
The new structure will make the nation's healthcare system more efficient and competitive and represents a key step in the government's strategy to ensure excellent medical care for all.
Federal Law no. 13 for the year 2009, establishes the
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