If you meet 70-year-old Maria, a Nigerian national, you’d never know she has a dual chamber pacemaker to keep her heart beating well. Full of life and vigour, Maria came to the UAE to treat her atrioventricular (AV) block. An AV block is a serious heart condition where the heart beats irregularly and much slower than usual. It can cause loss of consciousness or complete collapse. Patients with this condition need to have a pacemaker - a small device that rests inside your upper chest and connects to your heart with"...

HH Southern Governor Shaikh Khalifa bin Ali Al Khalifa today paid a visit to Al Hunainia's Dialysis Center construction project in the Southern Governorate, to learn about the construction progress there.

During touring the construction site, the Governor underlined keenness to establish coordination with the Ministry of Works, Municipal Affairs and Urban Planning and the Health Ministry to ensure the construction work progressing according to the plan. He said the project would be completed by the end of"...

Real Search, Bahrain’s largest property and facilities management services company, has announced a water saving campaign to preserve water by using the scarce resource wisely on a daily basis.

As part of the campaign, Real Search has launched a #SaveEveryDrop competition to motivate and inspire residents of all Bin Faqeeh properties managed by Real Search to conserve water.

For"...

The Ministry of Health (MoH) held a workshop pertaining to the ministerial decision issued to regulate the use, marketing and promotion of substitutes to breastfeeding.
The ministry launched the 'Baby-friendly Hospitals Initiative', that coincides with the World Breastfeeding Week, in the presence of ministry officials and nursing staffs.

Health Minister Faeqa bint Saeed Al Saleh delivered a speech in which she said that reliant upon the recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO), UINCEF"...

Bahrain Red Crescent Society (BRCS) has been visited by Thor Pedersen, a Red Cross goodwill ambassador for Denmark, who is in Bahrain as part of a mission to promote humanitarian compassion by travelling to every country around the globe.

Bahrain is the 154th destination of Pedersen’s journey that started from Germany nearly five years ago, which is planned to complete by February 2020. So far, he passed about 220,000 km through public transport and without flying.

In a meeting with BRCS’s"...

Boehringer Ingelheim, the UK Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy Consortium (GTC)—consisting of Imperial College London and the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh—Imperial Innovations, and Oxford BioMedica (OXB) announce a global collaboration to develop a first-in-class, long-term therapy for patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). The new partnership brings together the academic partners’ leading expertise in developing gene therapy for CF and OXB’s leading expertise in manufacturing lentiviral vector-based"...

The original patent for the modern toilet paper roll was made in 1883, with the standard design of a long strip of toilet paper wrapped around a paperboard cylinder remaining unchanged for over a hundred years. It seemed so simple and so effective a design that it couldn’t be improved upon. Granted, manufacturers have meddled and tinkered with the size of the roll, and the softness of the paper itself, but the fundamental design hasn’t been challenged since. However, after 135 years, Fine"...