Heart Diseases And High Blood Pressure Rampant In The UAE
Heart disease and high blood pressure continue to be on the rise in UAE, according to the results of a 2019 wellness survey.
The annual 2019 worldwide 360 Well-being Survey conducted by Cigna Corpo...
April 23, 20190839Category: Health
Is Eczema Affecting Your Quality Of Life
Living with persistent itching and reoccurring rashes is a life-long struggle for many eczema patients. To raise awareness and educate the UAE community, Dr Anwar Al Hammadi, Consultant Dermatologist ...
April 23, 20190839Category: Health
UAE To Have National Research Hub
In its continuous efforts to push for excellence in health care in the UAE, the Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) is in discussion with private firms to establish research and development faci...
April 21, 20190767Category: Health
70-bed Multi-specialty Hospital To Open In Sharjah
NMC Health care has announced plans to open a multi-specialty hospital in the Al Khan neighbourhood of Sharjah that will provide specialised medical services to residents. It is tentatively expected t...
April 17, 20190983Category: Health
Cancer, Heart Attacks Top Health Care Expense, Says Survey
Non-communicable diseases top health insurance payouts and increasingly people in their late forties and early fifties are making critical care claims, a survey conducted by a leading insurance agency...
April 17, 20190731Category: Health
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi To Get Oncology Centre
Despite existing treatment facilities, oncological care is still the top reason why patients in the UAE travel abroad for treatment.
To serve these patients, the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi has brok...
April 16, 20190901Category: Health
Free Dialyses Packages Offered To Poor Patients
Underprivileged dialysis patients now have a chance to avail free dialysis with the Dubai Health Authority’s (DHA’s) ‘Save a Life’ initiative.
Under the recently launched in...
April 15, 20190954Category: Health
Robot-assisted Knee Replacement In UAE Gives New Hope To 61-year Old
Khamees Salona is the first patient to undergo a robot-assisted total knee replacement at a public hospital — Shaikh Khalifa Medical City — in the UAE.
A day after he underwent the proc...
April 10, 20190794Category: Health
Dubai Girl With Absent Ovaries Is Among Only Two Such Cases Globally
When seven-year-old Maryam, a Syrian expat in Dubai, was rushed to the Emirates Hospital-Jumeirah with acute abdominal pain in October last year, little did the doctors realise they had a rarest-of-ra...
April 10, 20190778Category: Health