Saudi Arabia: Medina is world’s first large ‘healthy city’
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It is first with population exceeding 2 million to be recognized as such by WHO
Abu Dhabi: The World Health Organisation has recognised the holy...
Pakistan produces Chinese CanSinoBio COVID vaccine, brands it PakVac
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Pakistan signed a deal with CansinoBio late March to import a concentrate of the vaccine in bulk to process and package the vaccine locally.This...
Turkish university develops candidate for Covid-19 vaccine
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Both drug and vaccine candidate against virus developed in spray form by Akdeniz University in southern Turkey.
A drug and vaccine candidate that can also...
Indonesia to move this year’s haj pilgrims to front of line for COVID-19 vaccination
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JAKARTA– Indonesia’s government is working on a COVID-19 vaccination program for this year’s prospective haj pilgrims.
This follows a report in Saudi newspaper Okaz on...
Six HMC researchers named in global list of top scientists
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Qatar’s healthcare system, which has been consistently ranked as the best in the region, boasts highly qualified medical and allied health professionals.
Six researchers from...
First Pharmacy of the World
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The first pharmacy to ever exist was established during the Abbasid caliphate.
In Baghdad the first pharmacies, or drug stores, were established in 754, under...
Pentagon receives FEMA request for military to support Covid-19 vaccinations
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(CNN) The Pentagon has received a request from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assist with President Joe Biden's plan to boost Covid-19 vaccinations across...
Qatar’s healthcare system ranked among top 20 worldwide and best in the region
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Numbeo had conducted a study that ranked countries based on the Health Care Index for the year 2021.
The results of the study indicate that the...
COVID-19: Kuwait hires 208 Pakistani medics
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Appointing 96 other doctors at the Health Ministry facilities is in the pipeline
Cairo: Kuwaiti Health Ministry has appointed 208 Pakistani nationals who arrived in...
This modest German Turkish couple’s coronavirus vaccine candidate has made them billionaires
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BERLIN — At 8 p.m. Sunday, the phone rang with the call Ugur Sahin, chief executive of the German medical startup BioNTech, had been...