KUWAIT/BEIRUT: Lebanon received on Wednesday the first batch of aid from abroad which is a shipment of medical supplies provided by Kuwait and transported through a plane belonging to Kuwait Air Force. In a statement to KUNA, the advisor to the Lebanese Minister of Health Dr Hussein Muhaidly,"...

Doha: On the directives of the Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Qatar send urgent medical assistance to Lebanon this morning.

The first plane of the Amiri Air Force carrying the aid left for Rafic Hariri"...

The World Health Organization says it is airlifting medical supplies to Lebanon to cover up to 1,000 trauma interventions and up to 1,000 surgical interventions following the explosion in Beirut.

WHO spokesman"...

Turkey said Wednesday it is sending search and rescue teams along with emergency medical personnel to aid Lebanese authorities in the aftermath of the devastating explosion that killed at least 100 people in Beirut and injured thousands.

Foreign"...

Eyenuk, Inc., a global artificial intelligence (AI) medical technology and services company and the leader in real-world applications for AI Eye Screening, announced today that it has received 510(k) clearance (K200667) by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to market its EyeArt® autonomous AI System for diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of blindness among American adults. EyeArt is indicated for use by healthcare providers to automatically detect more than mild diabetic retinopathy (mtmDR) and vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy (vtDR) in eyes of adults diagnosed with diabetes who have not been previously diagnosed with......

• Net sales and EBITDA continued to grow in H1 2020 despite challenging market conditions due to COVID-19
• Ferinject®/ Injectafer® demand impacted by global COVID-19 restrictions
• Sustained growth in nephrology supported by dialysis business
• Veltassa® net sales impacted by reduced promotion to nephrologists due...
  Continue Reading >>

The state-run Rafik Hariri University Hospital on Tuesday denied reports claiming that it had stopped receiving coronavirus patients after running out of beds designated for COVID-19 treatment.

“The hospital’s"...

Dr Firass Abiad was a little-known Beirut hospital director until the coronavirus pandemic propelled him into the spotlight and restored at least some faith in Lebanon's much-maligned public sector.

At a time"...

Health Minister Hamad Hassan lamented on Monday that public health procedures to counter the spread of COVID-19 are not being respected, warning that the period of lockdown could be extended if the present general mobilization was assessed negatively.

The"...

Today, four leading global organizations dedicated to fighting preventable deaths due to medical errors announced their partnership to co-convene the #uniteforsafecare program on World Patient Safety Day (September 17, 2020). In June, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation announced the wide-ranging campaign to bring attention to system-wide improvements that will ensure better health worker and patient safety outcomes, called #uniteforsafecare. Now, the organization will be joined by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), The......