December 4, 2013

Heartbeat Experts, the global leader in stakeholder management solutions for the life sciences industry, today announced 44 percent sales growth during first three quarters of 2013. Heartbeat Expert’s market access division propelled this growth reporting a sales increase of 600 percent during the same period under comparison. The company also reported adding fifteen new life sciences firms to their client list during that period.

To further support continued market"......

December 4, 2013

The exhibition was officially inaugurated by Essa Al Maidoor, director general of the Dubai Health Authority, or DHA, in the presence of senior officials from the Ministry of Environment and Water, Dubai Municipality and various other dignitaries. Menope 2013 will be open for three days ending on December 5, 2013 and is expected to attract over 5,000 trade visitors from across the region.

“Menope has established itself as a vantage point for organic and natural product companies to study, enter and expand in the regional market. The show’s salience has grown"...

December 3, 2013

HOYA (TOKYO:7741) today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire a majority shareholding in Wassenburg Group, an Automated Endoscope Reprocessing (AER) market leader in the Netherlands. The planned closing date is November 1, 2013.

This strategic acquisition enables HOYA through its division PENTAX Medical to give its global customers complete access to a superior and wider portfolio in the field of flexible endoscopy from Endoscopes to AERs. The same synergies will also be driven by Wassenburg as the respective installed base customers and new customers"...

December 3, 2013

• Study showed significant reductions of HbA1c up to 2.8 percent in treatment-naïve adults with uncontrolled Type 2 Diabetes and marked hyperglycaemia (HbA1c >8.5 percent)
• Linagliptin monotherapy and in combination with metformin was well tolerated with no significant adverse events
• No weight gain seen with linagliptin monotherapy; average weight loss of 1.1kg seen in combination therapy with metformin

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Boehringer Ingelheim (BI) and Eli Lilly and Company today announced new data1 from a Phase IV study"...

December 3, 2013

Damac Properties, a leading real estate developer in the region, has donated Dh1 million ($272,183) to support the building of a new, high-tech care facility for the Dubai Autism Centre.

Hussain Sajwani, chairman, made the contribution as part of the company’s continued corporate social responsibility programme.

Founded in 2001, the centre is a non-profit organisation in the UAE serving children with autism spectrum disorders.

“It is the role of companies to support the communities in which they operate. The Dubai Autism Centre has made great strides in providing autistic children and their families with support and guidance. I am delighted that we can play a part in the building of a new high-tech centre to further this important work,” said...

December 2, 2013

• More than 10,000 people with Type 2 Diabetes and more than 6,500 treating physicians from 26 countries are to take part in new survey
• Survey to investigate how early conversations between people with Type 2 Diabetes and physicians can be optimised
• Insights from survey will be used to develop solutions to support primary care physicians and people with Type 2 Diabetes

Boehringer Ingelheim and Eli Lilly and Company today announced the launch of the largest multinational survey to investigate early conversations between physicians and people living with Type 2 Diabetes (T2D). The survey was developed in partnership"...

December 2, 2013

A consultancy predicts Abu Dhabi will reduce the shortfall of beds for women’s and child care as more public and private hospitals open in the emirate.

The current shortfall of beds for both normal deliveries and C-sections, is 600 in Abu Dhabi, and 1,400 in Dubai, said Jad Bitar, a partner with Booz and Company and a leader in the firm’s healthcare practice based in Beirut.

“Overall the capacity"...

November 30, 2013

Two new cases of the potentially deadly MERS respiratory virus, including a heavily pregnant woman, have been reported in the United Arab Emirates, media Friday cited health authorities as saying.

A 38-year-old Jordanian resident was hospitalised with breathing problems and diagnosed to be a carrier of MERS, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus.

His wife, who is eight months pregnant, was also hospitalised after being diagnosed as suffering from the disease, health authorities in Abu Dhabi said.

November 28, 2013

On behalf of H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai, UAE Minister of Finance, and President of Dubai Health Authority (DHA), H.E. Engineer Essa Al Haj Al Maidoor, the Director General of the Dubai Health Authority, inaugurated the “10th UAE International Conference & Exhibition on Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine”. The inauguration took place this morning at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The conference will be attended by anesthesiologists, intensivists, internists, emergency medicine doctors, pain therapists, surgeons, medical students, anesthesia technicians, ICU nurses, physicians and specialists from around the world.

November 28, 2013

Intertek, the global testing, auditing and certification organisation, have launched a series of training sessions in South Africa to promote food safety within the country. South Africa’s population is growing, as is the demand for safe and quality food. Intertek have recognised this opportunity to develop effective food safety systems within local organisations and have committed the investment to achieve this.

The two-day training sessions were successfully launched in Johannesburg on the 21-22 November, and Cape Town on 25-26 November. The focus of the sessions"...