Health Minister Back From Geneva

Manama-May-25(BNA)Health Minister Sadiq bin Abdulkarim Al-Shehabi returned home after attending the 66th annual meeting of the World Health Organisation in Geneva, Switzerland. He led Bahrain's delegation which included the Kingdom's Permanent Representative Dr. Abdulkarim Bucheeri, Assistant Undersecretary for Primary Care and Public Health Dr. Mariam Adhbi Al-Jalahmi, Public and ...

Israeli Doctors Save Syrian Toddler

JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israeli pediatric surgeons corrected congenital heart defects on a four-year-old Syrian girl at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon on ...

Weekend Reading Public-Health Crises Surfer Girls

Children Are Dying ,'; in which Alexandra Robbins, a former editorial assistant at this magazine, describes a baby named Atticus. Eleven weeks old and born about three months premature, he resides in the neonatal intensive-care unit at a Washington-area hospital, ';one of the most prominent in the country'; (though unnamed by Washingtonian, perhaps for legal reasons), yet the ...

Health ministry sets up desk for private healthcare providers

A Business Friendly Contact Desk has been set up within the health ministry to promote contacts with the business community for ventures within the health sector. In a press conference held this morning at the Ministry of Health in Valletta, current Health Minister Godfrey Farrugia accompanied by his Chief of Staff, Claudio Tonna, said the desk will "serve as a contact point with the ...

Doctors flooded with queries after Angelina Jolies double mastectomy

Entertainment News: BANGALORE: Doctors, especially oncologists, in Bangalore have been flooded with queries about the treatment, after the story about Hollywood actor Angelina Jolie undergoing prophylactic double mastectomy broke about a week ...