Hospitals urged to act against infection risks
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-06-14 16:33:56 -0700 | health-news
The Health Ministry and Association of Hospital Owners are urging hospitals to take steps to curb the rising rate of infections transmitted between staff by sharp medical equipment and tools. The American University of Beirut's medical center organized its first...
Future parliamentary bloc pitches new medical care system
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-06-04 16:30:24 -0700 | health-news
Beirut MP Atef Majdalani announced Tuesday the Future Movement's plan to provide free hospital services to those currently without health care. I make this proposal in the name of the Future parliamentary bloc and I hope that it will be...
Fewer tobacco products, but not alcohol, in movies
Source: Fox News
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-05-29 05:10:12 -0700 | health-news
Published May 29, 2013 Reuters Movie characters smoke less since 1998 regulations that stopped tobacco companies from buying on-screen brand placements, according to a new study. But at the same time, researchers found the number of alcohol brand appearances has...
Lung cancer screening: CT scans more effective than X-rays
Source: Fox News
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-05-23 10:21:20 -0700 | health-news
Published May 23, 2013 FoxNews.com Screening for lung cancer using low-dose computed tomography (CT scans) rather than chest X-rays may be a more effective way of detecting the disease, Medscape Today reported. Researchers hope that these results, collected as part...
Health Ministry: Lebanon has excellent health sector
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-05-19 15:49:12 -0700 | health-news
The Health Ministry announced Sunday that Lebanon has one of the most outstanding health sectors in the Arab world. The comments were made by Mohammad Abu Haidar, a representative for the caretaker health minister, during a conference at the Al-Rahma...
Two in three nurses want out of their jobs
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-05-07 16:05:43 -0700 | health-news
The Daily Star A nurse checks a patient's blood pressure at a hospital in Beirut. The shortage of qualified nurses working in Lebanon could become even more acute if working conditions are not improved, nurses and public health experts warned...
Instabeat Swimmer's Body Monitor Keeps Track of Heart Rhythm, Laps, Turns (w/video)
Source: EMRUpdate
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2013-04-25 11:07:51 -0700 | health-news
Keeping the heart beating within a specific rhythm range is an important part of getting the most out of exercise, especially for competitive athletes. Runners, bikers, and anyone else doing dry sports have a choice of devices that monitor the...
Striking hospitals to treat only urgent cases
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2012-05-26 10:24:17 -0700 | disasters-news
Hospitals are holding a week-long strike in protest of the National Social Security Fund's delay in reimbursing hospitals bills. Haroun also said that following the raise in the minimum wage approved by the government earlier this year, hospitals have been...
Researchers call for monitoring of arsenic levels in rice
Source: USA Today
Ithaca :: NY :: USA | updated 2012-02-05 19:58:56 -0800 | green-news
Currently there are no limits on the amount of allowable arsenic in rice in the USA . But the Environmental Protection Agency has set arsenic limits in water of 10 parts per billion. Researchers in a paper in Monday's Proceedings...
Doctors transplant bone marrow from non-relative
Source: The Daily Star
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2012-01-03 05:42:10 -0800 | business-news
For the first time in Lebanon, doctors at the American University of Beirut Medical Center this week transplanted bone marrow from a donor unrelated to the patient. The center described the procedure as an important achievement and the start of...
Half of Bipolar Patients Don’t Receive Proper Treatment
Posted by: sweetsana
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2012-11-02 01:07:01 -0700 | health-news
Even though bipolar disorder is considered a lifetime illness since symptoms can be seen starting in early childhood, the brutality of additional disorders and treatment needs for those are often ignored, especially in low-income countries. Experts from the World Health...
Sleep deprivation
Posted by: Mona Ayoub
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2012-11-02 06:49:01 -0700 | health-news
The most common cause to sleep deprivation is anxiety;It differs considering every stage in life.A child doesn't suffer from sleep deprivation, but suffers fear from the dark;As adults, fear transforms into insomnia.It starts when someone is emotionally suffering, over thinking...
Lebanon's top Shiite cleric hospitalized and suffering from liver problem, official says
Source: Macleans
Beirut :: Lebanon | updated 2010-09-02 12:46:05 -0700 | political-news
An official close to Lebanon's top Shiite cleric says the influential sheik has been hospitalized. The official says Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah has been in hospital for 12 days but his conditions deteriorated on Friday after suffering complications from...
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