Middle East Health News

According to a study published in Diabetes Care , it is believed the cost of caring for this group will triple during the time frame, imposing a heavy burden on families and on the government. "If things stay the way...

Slovenian health authorities say a 77-year-old woman was hospitalised when her heart stopped minutes after she received a H1N1 flu shot. Health Minister Borut Miklavcic said late on Thursday that authorities are still investigating whether the patient's heart problem was...

Health authorities yesterday declared that a swine flu vaccine was safe for infants aged between 6 and 36 months, as thousands of citizens continued to visit inoculation centers around the country to get their shots. As authorities step up efforts...

Evidence was growing this weekend that babies born in the Iraqi city of Fallujah – scene in 2004 of one of the few set-piece battles of the invasion – are exhibiting high rates of mortality and birth defects. In September...

Diabetes cases in Qatar are still on the rise and the assumption based on a previous survey that showed a downward trend, is unfounded, a senior official of the Qatar Diabetes Association (QDA) said yesterday. QDA along with the Supreme...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid found his health reform efforts seriously complicated Monday by the explosive issue of abortion , as key centrist senators said they wanted to see airtight language in the bill blocking federal funding for the procedure....

Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn are demanding assurances that detainees at the Guantánamo Bay terrorist prison won't receive the swine flu vaccine until all 159 million Americans at elevated risk have access to a vaccination. The Texans, along with...

A teenager and three elderly people in Saudi Arabia for the hajj pilgrimage have died of the H1N1 flu virus, the Saudi Health Ministry said. The victims of the virus were a 17-year-old Nigerian female and a Sudanese man, an...

Democrats walked into a Monday afternoon news conference to criticize Sen. Tom Coburn, looked into the audience and saw ... Tom Coburn. “I’m going to enjoy the festivities,” said the Oklahoma Republican, waiting for Sens. Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), Jon Tester...