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• Welcare Hospital receives accreditation from leading healthcare authority
• Welcare Hospital, one of the region's leading healthcare providers operated by EHL Management Services, has now been officially granted the prestigious Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation, the leading industry benchmark for measuring the delivery of quality healthcare. The checklist for accreditation includes over 350 factors, ranging from surgical hygiene and anaesthesia procedures to the quality of medical staff and nurses...
• Paramedics will employ new therapy in cardiac arrest
• Paramedics in New York City are being trained in a relatively new cooling therapy that has been shown to increase the chances for cardiac arrest patients to survive and to avoid brain damage, city officials said...
• New antibacterial material for bandages, food packaging, shoes
• A new form of paper with the built-in ability to fight disease-causing bacteria could have applications that range from anti-bacterial bandages to food packaging that keeps food fresher longer to shoes that ward off foot odor. A report about the new material, which consists of the thinnest possible sheets of carbon, appeared in ACS Nano, a monthly journal...
• Medical staff in Dubai need further education to renew licence
• The new requirement from the Ministry of Health has been put into effect retroactively from last month, and will help raise the standards of health care services and improve the performance of doctors in the country, the Ministry said in a statement...
• Many knee and hip replacement patients experience weight decrease after surgery
• A Mount Sinai School of Medicine study has found that patients often exhibit a significant decrease in weight and body mass index (BMI) after undergoing knee or hip replacement surgery (arthroplasty). The study is the first of its type to correct for the annual increase in BMI typically found in North Americans between the ages of 29 to 73 years. The study was recently published in Orthopedics...
• Mafraq hospital needs 400 new staff
• The UAE’s most high-tech hospital needs to find almost 100 doctors and 300 nurses amid a local and global shortage of medical staff before it opens in 2013, its chief executive said...
• Lifeline for Abu Dhabi hospitals straining to keep blood flowing
• Just one blood bank in Abu Dhabi supplies both the capital city and the Emirate's Western Region's average daily need for 150 units of blood, a consultant pathologist at the blood collection and distribution centre said...
• Glucosamine no better than placebo in treating low back pain
• Glucosamine is not significantly different from placebo for reducing pain-related disability or improving health-related quality of life in patients with chronic low back pain (LBP) and degenerative lumbar osteoarthritis, a new study has found...
• FDA tells makers of Positive-Displacement Needleless Connectors to study infection risk
• The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is requiring nine companies that make positive-displacement needleless connectors for intravenous (IV) therapy to assess whether these devices pose a higher risk for bloodstream infections than other types of needleless connectors, the agency has announced...
• Royal Jet Medical Evaculation Services – the pioneer of Medevac services in the Middle East – is exhibiting at the Abu Dhabi Medical Congress
• Royal Jet Medical Evacuation Services was launched in May 2003 as the pioneer of Medevac services in the Middle East. It is a subsidiary of Royal Jet - the award-winning international luxury flight services provider headquartered in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)...
• Leader Healthcare FZCO is showcasing new products at the Abu Dhabi Medical Congress
• Leader Healthcare FZCO is a medical equipment solutions provider operating in the GCC territory. The company specializes in hospital projects solutions and equipment specific to Operating Rooms / Emergency Rooms, ICU’s, NICU’s, Aesthetic & Wellness Clinics, Ophthalmology, ENT, Home Healthcare & many other specialty needs in the healthcare environment...