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Coronavirus: Blood pressure drugs may protect against severe COVID-19, study finds
Widely used drugs to control high blood pressure may help protect against severe COVID-19, a new study found, allaying concerns that they could make ... Coronavirus -
Japan to block foreign acquisitions of drug, ventilator makers: Local media
Japan plans to block foreign companies from acquiring domestic drug and medical equipment makers, to protect access to medicine and ventilators that ... Coronavirus -
More than 500 medical facilities struck in Syria since 2016: WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday that it has documented more than 500 military attacks on medical facilities in Syria since it ... Middle East -
UAE is prepared with supplies for coronavirus: Minister
The United Arab Emirates has stockpiled enough emergency medical supplies in preparation for the coronavirus, also known as corona, according to a ... Gulf -
Indian doctors remove giant kidney from man
Indian surgeons have cut a kidney weighing the same as a bowling ball out of a man with a life-threatening genetic condition, a surgeon said on Monday ... Variety -
US lab identifies rare new HIV strain
A US healthcare company has identified a new subtype of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and said the finding showed that cutting edge genome ... Healthy Living -
Foreign member of a medic team killed in Syria’s northeast
A Kurdish official and a Syrian war monitor said that Turkey-backed opposition fighters have struck an international medic group killing one of its ... Middle East -
Trio win Nobel Medicine Prize for work on cells, oxygen
US researchers William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza and Britain’s Peter Ratcliffe on Monday shared the Nobel Medicine Prize for discoveries on how ... Variety -
UK doctors launch guide for Syrian medics battling to save children’s lives
British doctors and humanitarians have launched a pioneering field manual to help medics in Syria and other warzones treat catastrophic injuries in ... Healthy Living -
New consumer protection laws worry India’s doctors, e-tailers
As the general elections draw nearer, the Indian government is all set to enforce stringent, long-overdue laws for empowering every consumer but the ... Economy -
King Faisal International Prize winners announced
The Khartoum-based International University of Africa bagged the King Faisal International Prize 2019 in the category of service to Islam.The General ... Gulf -
Is cancer on the edge of defeat? New $400,000 drug targets cancer mutation
A new drug marks pivotal findings in the study of oncology. While cancer today is treated on an organ -based manner, new medicines target the cancer ... Healthy Living -
Differently abled Saudi boy hailed a hero for donating stem cells to save sister
A five-year-old Saudi boy is being hailed a hero for helping his two sisters by donating his stem cells despite being differently abled and suffering ... Features -
Studies find medical devices harmful with little to no govt regulation worldwide
After years of suffering from chronic pain, Jim Taft thought he had found something to replace opioids. The pain made it difficult to walk and the ... Healthy Living -
Seats for sale in Iran's Faculty of Medicine as corruption reaches universities
MP Mahmoud Sadeghi, a member of the Iranian parliament’s educational committee, revealed that the state’s widespread corruption has ... Middle East -
New drug shown to delay spread of prostate cancer
German drug maker Bayer and Finland’s Orion said on Wednesday a study showed a prostate cancer drug they are jointly developing can delay the ... Healthy Living -
Experts caution study on plastics in humans is premature
Scientists in Austria say they've detected tiny bits of plastic in people's stool for the first time, but experts caution the study is too small and ... Healthy Living -
Arab nations high on India’s thriving medical tourism agenda
Buoyed by the good response for medical tourism India has received in the last few years, the government, the Confederate of Indian Industries (CII), ... Features -
VIDEO: Cow-based products gaining popularity in India
The idea of panchgavya or five cow products is gaining popularity in India. The products, milk, curd, ghee, urine, and dung, are specifically popular ... Variety -
India’s doctors are on war-path over new ‘pro-rich’ medical bill
Doctors in India have locked horns with the federal government which is all fired up for the passage of a parliamentary bill to replace the Medical ... Features -
VIDEO: Despite handicap, India’s ‘Medicine Baba’ collects pills to help the poor
Despite battling physical handicap, Omkar Nath aka “Medicine Baba” goes door-to-door in India, collecting unused medicine. Every day, he ... Variety -
King Salman Relief Center aids delivery of WHO oxygen stations to Yemen
The King Salman Humanitarian and Relief Center has supported the World Health Organization (WHO) in the delivery of life-saving oxygen stations to the ... Gulf -
Egyptian hospital manager fired for meeting minister in casual jeans
A hospital manager was dismissed from his duties in Egypt after showing up to an important meeting with the deputy minister of health wearing a pair ... Variety -
Dubai authorities issue new plastic surgery guidelines
Dubai's Health Authority urged cosmetic patients to make sure their surgeons have the proper credentials and license to avoid botched operations. ... Healthy Living -
Doctors warn of the rise of antibiotic resistance in the Middle East
Doctors who treat patients in the Middle East have expressed alarm at the misuse of antibiotics which are too readily available in the region with no ... Healthy Living -
Kuwaiti dies after losing balance due to severe cough, falls from fifth floor
A Kuwaiti citizen died after falling from his apartment balcony on the fifth floor due to a severe coughing episode causing him to lose his balance. ... Gulf -
Music therapy to help treat cancer? Doctors in India try adding a melodic dose
Doctors in India are these days adding a dose of music therapy to their treatment regimen for physical and mental ailments and seem to have hit the ... Features -
More than 1,000 Egyptian medical students receive ‘zero’ on their final exam
Around 1,200 students in their sixth year of medical school at Mansoura University received a score of zero on their surgery exam.The decision was ... Variety -
‘Biological clock’ scientists win 2017 Nobel Medicine Prize
Three Americans won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their discoveries about the body’s daily rhythms, opening up whole ... Healthy Living -
‘I’m traumatized:’ Narrating the raw stories of medics in Iraq
Dr Natalie Thurtle has just returned from Iraq where she was working as an emergency doctor in a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital ... Features