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Iraq Report - Children with serious
illnesses abandoned Nine-year-old Faleh Muhammad was abandoned by his family in April 2006. He was left to fend for himself in the streets of Baghdad, and later he was diagnosed with leukaemia, reports IRIN News. |
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Syria Report - Public health system
stretched SSyria’s public health system is under severe strain. Although the quality of its health care remains regionally strong, growing budget deficits, ballooning demographics and the influx of an estimated 1.5 million Iraqis, all of whom qualify for free healthcare ... |
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Palestine Report - Gaza’s medical sector feeling impact of
Israeli sanctions, restrictions Health officials in the Gaza Strip say they are concerned about hundreds of patients unable to travel to Israel or other countries for vital treatment, and that local hospitals lack essential medical equipment, drugs and fuel, according to a 5 December 2007 IRIN report. |
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AIDS Update - UN revises worldwide AIDS figures UNAIDS and World Health Organisation have lowered their estimates of how many people are living with HIV/AIDS worldwide, Reuters/New York Times reports. According to the report about 33 million people worldwide are living with HIV/AIDS, compared with an estimate of nearly 40 million in 2006. |
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H5N1 Update - Saudi Arabia culls 4
million birds Most countries in the Middle East, especially those bordering Saudi Arabia, have taken measures to prevent bird flu after an outbreak of the disease there in early November, reports IRIN News (29 November 2007). |
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WHO-EMRO - The way forward Health ministers from across the region gather each year for the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Committee meeting to determine the way forward for public health in the region. Callan Emery attended the talks in Cairo and provides an overview of the key issues. |
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Dubai Healthcare City - Region’s first
CAM council established Dubai Healthcare City, has set up a Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAM) Council, the first of its kind in the Middle East. |
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Pan Arab Genetics - Expert calls for
preventive programmes in Arab world There is an urgent need to establish, improve and expand preventive programmes across the Arab world to alleviate the costly burden of treating and managing disease that results from genetic disorders (GD), says Ghazi Omar Tadmouri, assistant director, Centre for Arab Genomic Studies (CAGS), Dubai. |
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Perspective - Understanding health
workers' anxieties in a diversifying world Health ministers from across the region gather each year for the WHO Eastern Mediterranean Regional Committee meeting to determine the way forward for public health in the region. Callan Emery attended the talks in Cairo and provides an overview of the key issues. |
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Computed Tomography - Picture Perfect
- Sharper images, less radiation The four major players in Computed Tomography (CT) – Philips Medical, GE Healthcare, Siemens Medical and Toshiba Medical – have all recently announced key advances to their leading CT products. |
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Cardiology - Statins and cancer – the
hidden story Both the West and the Middle East share rising heart disease and cancer incidence rates. Brian Peskin, with David Sim, MD and Amid Habib, MD, review current research literature and suggest a causal link between increased widespread statin use for battling heart disease (by lowering LDL cholesterol) and the concurrent increase in cancer. |
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Interview |
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Hospitals for the poor In an exclusive interview with Middle East Health, Sobhi Batterjee, the president of the Saudi German Hospitals Group, tells Callan Emery about an innovative business plan he has initiated to provide healthcare services to the poor. |
