Mecca :: Saudi Arabia
| updated Thu Dec 10 11:42:50 -0800 2009
| health-news
MECCA: A security official wearing a protective mask keeps an eye on cars at a checkpoint between Jeddah and Mecca before the annual Haj pilgrimage. Saudi authorities announced four pilgrims have died of the H1N1 swine flu virus in the...
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia
| updated Fri Dec 18 06:57:54 -0800 2009
| health-news
RIYADH - A second wave of swine flu has begun in Saudi Arabia, the health ministry said on Friday, as the death toll from A(H1N1) neared 60 just weeks before the annual hajj brings two million pilgrims to the country....
Mecca :: Saudi Arabia
| updated Thu Nov 26 12:52:24 -0800 2009
| health-news
Four pilgrimage peoples died on swine flu in Saudi Arabia Event the Government of Saudi Arabia give a strict warning to all pilgrimage peoples whose should get a flu vaccinations before entering to Jeddah, and Mecca, Arab Saudi, today about...
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia
| updated Mon Jan 18 14:11:17 -0800 2010
| health-news
king Saud university in conjunction with king Khalid university hospital represented by health education center they will start a campaign for ten weeks starting next month and launched by minster of health dr abdullah alrbeah to aware public about this...
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia
| updated Sun Nov 22 09:36:59 -0800 2009
| health-news
Why is it "Experts" are allowed to ramble on about the "Flu"? The Flu is a year long medical issue. Yet the "experts" are not able to create enough vaccine yet alone start producing it until the actual yearly virus...
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia
| updated Tue Jan 12 16:41:30 -0800 2010
| health-news
There's some big news in the world of ophthalmology: The Wilmer Eye Institute of Johns Hopkins Medicine announced a partnership today with the King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The eye specialists will collaborate on research, education and patient care....
Riyadh :: Saudi Arabia
| updated Wed Oct 28 07:46:45 -0700 2009
| health-news
Smoking seen to cause malnutrition in children Much is written about smoking being unhealthy and harmful, but it is also a highly expensive habit. Spending on tobacco drives out critical expenditures that cover basic needs. This is most significant in...
Issued by King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz is to postpone the study for phases of the intermediate and high schools, kindergartens, primary and special needs in the KSA and the purchase of six million additional doses of vaccine against swine influenza....
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