ABU DHABI: Burjeel Holdings has achieved a significant milestone by receiving institutional accreditation from the National Institute for Health Specialties (NIHS), a prestigious accreditation programme in the UAE. Burjeel Holdings is the first privat…
GENEVA: COVID-19 is still killing around 1,700 people a week around the world, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said Thursday, urging those most at risk to continue receiving vaccinations against the virus.
At a press conference, WHO Director-Gene…
DUBAI: IROS, an Abu Dhabi-based contract research organisation (part of the M42 group), has partnered with Prilenia Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotech company, and the International Huntington’s Disease Association (IHA) to plan the first-ever cli…
DUBAI: The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) today announced the signing of an agreement with Dubai Health to cooperate in the provision of an optimum environment to ensure the health and safety of astronauts, in addition to enhancing innovatio…
DUBAI: The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MOHAP) in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO) organised a training workshop targeting healthcare workers in the public and private sectors.
The training aimed to assess the growth of ch…
DUBAI: In line with our mission of people centered eye care services that are environmentally responsible to support sustainability, Noor Dubai Foundation launched its latest programme in Nepal in collaboration with Nepal Netra Jyoti Sangh (NNJS), a n…
GENEVA: The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on Wednesday that it has prequalified the first self-test for the hepatitis C virus (HCV), thus accelerating efforts towards elimination of the viral infection.
Hepatitis C attacks the liver and c…
ABU DHABI: In a groundbreaking medical achievement, the first paediatric liver transplant in the UAE has been performed on a four-year-old girl, marking the first living donor paediatric liver transplant in the country.
This milestone surgery carried…
