Tag: Healthcare
Saudi Arabia announces COVID-19 vaccination program
A three-phase COVID-19 vaccination program has been announced by Saudi Arabia as it started to register citizens and foreign residents after the approval of...
Investcorp acquires Danish clinical trial firm Sanos
Bahrain’s private equity company, Investcorp has acquired Sanos Group (Sanos), a leading provider of specialized clinical trial services to the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology...
UAE tops in Arab region in terms of Current Health Expenditure...
The UAE has ranked first among the Gulf, Arab and Eastern Mediterranean countries in terms of Current Health Expenditure per Capita (CHE_pc), as per...
COVID-19 vaccine growth is encouraging but volume of dose concerns: WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) is impressed with the growth in the number of vaccines against COVID-19 that have performed well in clinical trials,...
Gates Foundation donates $250mn to support the COVID-19 battle
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged an additional $250 million to support the research, development and easier delivery of the COVID-19 vaccine...
Making COVID-19 vaccine mandatory is not the right step: WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) said that it would be much more effective to convince people about the merits of a COVID-19 vaccine than...
COVID-19 reinfection rare but possible: WHO warns
Officials of the World Health Organization (WHO) have cautioned that recent data show that though rare, individuals who were once infected with coronavirus could...
COVID-19 patients with chronic kidney disease more likely to be hospitalized;...
A recent study conducted on electronic health records at the US-based regional health care provider Geisinger Health System has revealed that chronic kidney disease among...
