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HRH Premier's interest in sickle cell patients hailed
June 20, 2018
His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa has received a cable of thanks and gratitude from the Chairman of the Bahrain Society for Sickle Cell Anaemia Patient Care, Zakariya Ibrahim Al-Kadhem, marking the World Sickle Cell Day, observed worldwide today.
Al-Kadhem extended heartfelt thanks and appreciation to HRH Premier for his unwavering interest in sickle cell patients in Bahrain.
He stressed that HRH the Prime Minister, being among influential Arab, Islamic"...
Octapharma announces approval of new Nuwiq® product strengths in Europe, increasing dosing flexibility for patients with haemophilia A
June 18, 2018
(AETOS Wire) -- Octapharma announced today that the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has approved an extension of marketing authorisation for its human cell line-derived recombinant factor VIII (rFVIII) product, Nuwiq®. New single dose vial strengths of 2500, 3000 and 4000 International Units (IU) will be available in Europe, in addition to the current strengths of 250, 500, 1000 and 2000 IU. The new Nuwiq®"...
Brightree Announces eReferral Integration with athenahealth
June 15, 2018
Brightree, the leading provider of cloud-based software helping post-acute care companies improve business performance and patient outcomes, announced the release of a new solution that allows home medical equipment (HME) providers to digitally receive orders from more than 62,000 providers using athenaClinicals within the athenahealth network, the same way doctors have long referred patients to other specialists. Before eReferral Management, physician and HME staff had to manually send, receive and process referrals and related documents via faxing and phone calls. Now, any office that uses athenahealth, a leading provider of network-enabled services for hospital and ambulatory clients nationwide, can refer patients to an HME provider the same way that they refer patients to other care settings, forwarding equipment orders directly from their electronic health records (EHR) system to the......
Sclerosis centre to be constructed in Muharraq
June 14, 2018
A sclerosis centre is to be constructed in Bahrain, as part of the Muharraq Medical Complex.
Works, Municipalities Affairs and Urban Planning Minister Essam bin Abdulla Khalaf signed an agreement with National Bank of Bahrain (NBB) Chairman Farooq Youssef Almoayyed to supervise the construction of the medical project.
The ceremony was attended by Health Minister Faeqa bint Said Al-Saleh, Undersecretary for Works Affairs Ahmed Al-Khayyat, Assistant Undersecretary for Hospital Affairs Dr. Mohammed"...
Hajj medical committee preparations discussed
June 12, 2018
Health Minister Faeqa bint Saeed Al Saleh has received the head of the he Hajj Mission's Coordinative Medical Committee Dr. Ibrahim Faraq Obaid, in the presence of the committee members.
Dr. Obaid presented a detailed report on the medical committee of the Hajj mission and reviewed the Committee’s achievements and tasks for the Bahraini pilgrims in the Holy Land.
He explained that the Medical Committee provides services to all Bahraini pilgrims, citizens and residents.
The minister"...
Fire safety awareness campaign organised
June 12, 2018
Civil Defence Directorate's General Director Brigadier Abdulaziz Al Ammer said that a fire safety awareness campaign was organised by the directorate.
Ramadan breakfasting meals, smoke detectors and anti-fire blankets were distributed. The department also distributed awareness leaflets at various locations in all the governorates.
The campaign was aimed to promote community partnership and general safety among the public, especially during Ramadan. bna "...
New Study Investigates the Utility of Masimo SedLine® Patient State Index in Monitoring Anesthesia Depth of Patients with Healthy and Cirrhotic Livers
June 12, 2018
(AETOS Wire) -- Masimo (NASDAQ: MASI) announced today the findings of an abstract presented at Euroanaesthesia 2018 in which researchers compared Masimo Patient State Index (PSi), a processed EEG parameter provided by SedLine® brain function monitoring (in this study, first generation SedLine), to Medtronic Bispectral Index (BIS™) in monitoring the depth of anesthesia of two groups of patients: healthy volunteers undergoing hepatotomy for liver donation and cirrhotic patients undergoing liver resection. The researchers found “excellent” agreement between the two methods as well as similar sevoflurane consumption, and found that PSi 1.0 was less affected by electrocautery.1 In the study, Dr. Yassen and colleagues at Menoufia University in Shibin El Kom, Egypt, sought to test agreement between two brain function monitoring indices, Masimo PSi and Medtronic BIS. They monitored......
Registration for ‘Medical Grant’will begin on June 24
June 11, 2018
Registration for Her Highness Shaikha Moza bint Hamad Medical Grant will begin on June 24. The scholarship is provided in collaboration with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland – Medical University of Bahrain (RCSI Bahrain) and AlMabarrah AlKhalifia Foundation. Registration for the second consecutive year, will be open till July 7 on the Foundation’s website http://www. mkfbh.org. Her"...
AGU to invite contractors for $266m Bahrain medical city
June 11, 2018
Arabian Gulf University (AGU) said the preparatory work on its multi-million-dollar King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Medical City is nearing completion, reported BNA.
The late King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud had directed the authorities to build the Medical City at an investment of SR1 billion, ($266 million) affiliate to AGU, while HM King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa donated 1 million sq m of land south of the capital Manama for the project, said the report.
Once completed, the mega project coming up"...
WHO delegation to conduct study in Bahrain
June 10, 2018
Assistant Undersecretary for Public Health at the Ministry of Health and member of the Executive Board of the GCC Health Council, Dr. Maryam Al-Hajiri, has received a delegation of experts from the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The delegation visited the kingdom to collect the necessary information for the study WHO is conducting on Economics of Tobacco in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), at the request of the GCC Health Council.
The assistant undersecretary conveyed to the delegation greetings from"...
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