• APPEAL FOR RESEARCH BRAIN DONORS

    Added On : 6th January 2009

    More people need to donate their brains...

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  • Medical Malpractice Claimed in Death

    Added On : 6th July 2012

    Medical Malpractice Claimed in Death at Amluj Hospital

    YANBU — Relatives alleged medical malpractice in the death of a woman at a private hospital in Amluj, a town north of Yanbu.

    Faidi Al-Jahani said his 45-year-old sister Noura was admitted to Al-Hawra Hospital in Amluj with complications from hypertension.

    Doctors gave the woman an intravenous injection and she immediately slipped into an irrevocable coma.

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  • Study Reveals Tooth Decay is Highest...

    Added On : 24th January 2012

    Study Reveals Tooth Decay is Highest in Saudi Children
     
    A study conducted by Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah revealed that approximately 90 percent Saudi children suffer from tooth decay. The study of children from the different regions of the Kingdom showed that 74 percent to 93 percent children between the ages of six and seven years suffer from tooth decay.
     
    The dental students’ club at Umm Al-Qura University organized an awareness campaign and exhibition on oral and dental health in King Abdul Aziz Endowment building. The informational booths attracted and informed young children and their parents on dental hygiene and healthy lifestyle habits that prevent dental caries.
  • Home Remedies Provide Relief to Sick Children

    Added On : 11th December 2011

    Cold weather may have its perks but the downside is that it comes with a number of common illnesses. The flu virus targets children during the winter season and causes either cough, tightness of breath, sore throat, hoarse voice, sneezing, or fever apart from keeping worried parents late up into the night.
     
    Since the flu is viral in nature, antibiotics cannot treat it and not much can be done except to keep the sick child comfortable by giving him/her warm fluids to drink, plenty of rest and sleep, and light medication to keep the fever down.
  • Potent Vaccine Could Beat Alzheimer's...

    Added On : 16th November 2011

    Potent Vaccine Could Beat Alzheimer's, But It Must Be Given Even Before There Are Any Symptoms, Say Scientists

    The secret to beating Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia, could be as simple as a potent vaccine, scientists have discovered.

    But the injection would need to be given at the earliest stages of the disease, before any of the symptoms of Alzheimer's are evident.

    By preventing the disease from taking hold in the first place, researchers hope to pave the way to completely eradication.

    However U.S. scientists still need to develop the vaccine, and to fine tune early detection of the disease.

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  • Ten Cases of Malta Fever in Single Week

    Added On : 13th June 2011

    MADINA: Health Affairs in Madina has set up a committee to urgently tackle the appearance of ten cases of Malta fever across the region, half of them in the area of Al-Hinakiya.
     
    Al-Watan Arabic daily reported that the cases, involving four men and six women, all Saudis working with cattle, were recorded in a single week beginning May 20 this year in Al-Hinakiya, Khaybar, Al-Eis, Mahd Al-Dhahab and Wadi Al-Fur’.
  • Symposium Discusses Various Gums Diseases

    Added On : 11th December 2010

    RIYADH: Bleeding gums, if ignored untreated could lead to more serious dental problems, said Dr. Khaled Al-Hamdan, Assistant Professor and head of the Division of Periodontics, Dentistry College, King Saud University (KSU).
     
    “Certain dental conditions such as bleeding gums are often ignored as people presume this to be a harmless problem,” said Dr. Al-Hamdan while addressing a symposium here that discussed latest advancements in gum disease.
  • Abdullah Orders SR900m Tumor Center in Riyadh

    Added On : 8th November 2010

    RIYADH: The King Abdullah Center For Tumor and Liver Diseases will be set up at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, (KFSHRC), Health Minister Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah announced here on Saturday.

    “We are thankful to Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah for having magnanimously agreed to call the new facility after his name,” Al-Rabeeah said, adding that the king has instructed to carry out the project quickly.

    The facility is part of an integrated strategy to treat tumors and liver diseases. It is estimated to cost SR906 million and will have 300 beds to serve citizens and residents in the Kingdom.

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  • Probe Sought Into Death in Taif Hospital

    Added On : 9th July 2009

    TAIF: A pregnant Saudi woman died at King Abdulaziz Hospital in Taif on Tuesday while undergoing a Caesarean section.

    The Health Affairs Department in Taif said the woman came to the hospital after going into early labor. The woman had failed to seek medical help since the beginning of her pregnancy.

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  • PROTRUDING HEART CHILD MOVED...

    Added On : 13th March 2009

    PROTRUDING HEART CHILD MOVED TO KING FAISAL HOSPITAL

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