Antimicrobial and eco-friendly products by German Company proven to be 99.99% effective against bacteria and viruses (incl. SARS-CoV-2), with coatings that can last up to 12 months, according to international ISO standards. SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 1 June 2021 – DYPHOX, a professional hygiene solutions company based in Germany will be launching their line of antimicrobial products in Southeast Asia, starting with Singapore. Founded in […]
IRVINE, CA. – News Aktuell – 12 April 2021 – Fluxergy, Inc., a medical diagnostic testing platform company with a detection technology solution capable of multimodality, announced today that it has obtained CE marking for its one-hour COVID-19 RT-PCR test, to use by healthcare professionals as an in vitro diagnostic (IVD) for the detection of SARS-CoV-2. The CE-mark will allow Fluxergy’s innovative testing platform to enter the […]
By John Wight As only he can, Albert Camus in his classic 1947 novel, The Plague, mines the human condition in the midst of a crisis in which solidarity, selflessness and mutuality are the means of survival and in which individualism, selfishness and self-regard are death itself. Camus: “This whole thing is not […]
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Custom-made plans meeting the specific needs of homeowners, landlords and tenants Protection of your rental income and personal belongings taken out of home Comprehensive protection for as low as the cost of two coffees each month HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 4 November 2020 – Property prices in Hong Kong top the world with many purchases worth over HKD10 million. Yet despite spending most of their savings on […]
Changing market demands due to COVID-19 are driving organisations to evaluate reskilling their workforce. SINGAPORE – Media OutReach – 23 September 2020 – Aon plc (NYSE: AON), a leading global professional services firm providing a broad range of risk, retirement and health solutions, has released the results of a new global pulse survey focused on how companies are rethinking their human capital strategies in response to the humanitarian and economic impacts […]
Challenges from ageing populations and covid-19 are putting pressure on Japan’s health system Japan’s health system falls behind its peers in terms of long-term strategic perspective Price review and setting mechanism introduces unintended inefficiencies in the health system and act as a brake on structural reform TOKYO, JAPAN – Media OutReach – 23 September 2020 – Japan’s healthcare system has kept the country remarkably healthy with relatively minor changes for nearly six […]
TAIPEI, TAIWAN – Media OutReach – 11 September 2020 – To explore issues complicated by the coronavirus, including sustainable development, climate change and environmental protection, the Tang Prize Foundation and National Tsing Hua University will co-host the 2020 Tang Prize Masters’ Forum for Sustainable Development, taking place at 4p.m. (GMT+8) Taiwan time, on September 21. Livestreamed on the Foundation’s website (https://www.tang-prize.org/en/week.php?cat=94) with Chinese and English settings available, this forum features […]
Global delivery of 10 billion doses of serum needs scaled-up medical supply chains A framework is provided to tackle future health emergencies beyond COVID-19 BONN, GERMANY – Media OutReach – September 7, 2020 – With first emergency use authorizations for COVID-19 vaccines expected to be effective in the last quarter of 2020, logistics providers are challenged to rapidly establish medical supply chains to deliver more than ten billion doses worldwide. DHL, […]
The initiative empowers grassroots social innovators with funding and guidance to improve lives, their communities and the environment. WAM Expo 2020 Dubai has joined forces with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support grassroots innovators with the ambition and potential to improve the lives of people across a variety of complex, fragile or marginalised humanitarian settings, organisers announced at the end of the fifth Expo 2020 […]
COUNTRY LATEST UPDATES Saudi Arabia Covid-19 pandemic latest: Total confirmed cases: 301,323 Recoveries: 272,911 Deaths: 3,470 Actions to slow the spread of Covid-19: 3 August: Pilgrims returning from Hajj must quarantine for 14 days and will be monitored using electronic bands to ensure compliance. 28 July: Health Ministry to assign a health leader for every 50 pilgrims at this year’s scaled-back […]
Expo 2020’s global innovation and partnership programme has announced the provision of additional support to innovators from around the world facing financial hardship as a direct result of the global pandemic Expo Live has set aside AED3.7 million (US$1 million) in an Emergency Relief Fund, ERF, to support innovators from its global innovation and impact grant programme who are facing immediate financial hardship because of the ongoing […]
By Dustin Volz and Eric Auchard | WASHINGTON/FRANKFURT WASHINGTON/FRANKFURT U.S. and European officials scrambled to catch the culprits behind a massive ransomware worm that caused damage across the globe over the weekend, stopping car factories, hospitals, shops and schools, as Microsoft pinned blame on governments for not disclosing more software vulnerabilities. The attack, which leveraged malicious software that security researchers widely believe was stolen from the U.S. National […]
Businesses must brace for further cyber attacks this week on a potentially “significant scale”, British intelligence officials warned on Sunday, less than 48 hours after the debilitating WannaCry infection swept across the world. Current data show more than 1.3m computer systems are still vulnerable to infection by WannaCry, which has paralysed hospitals, disrupted transport networks and immobilised businesses, according to cyber security analysts. So far, 200,000 computers […]
A massive ransomware attack targeted around 100 countries around the world. Perhaps one of the most affected is Britain’s National Health Service (NHA), where many hospitals struggled to keep up without their computers. Massive Cyberattack Friday, May 12, saw a cyberattack of global proportions when a ransomware popped up in computers across the globe. Multiple companies, organizations, and hospitals were unprepared to receive a message with a […]
An exterior view shows the main entrance of St Bartholomew’s Hospital, in London, one of the hospitals whose computer systems were affected by a cyberattack, Friday, May 12, 2017. A large cyberattack crippled computer systems at hospitals across England on Friday, with appointments canceled, phone lines down and patients turned away. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham) Teams of technicians worked “round the clock” Saturday to restore hospital computer systems […]
A massive global cyber attack engulfed one in five NHS trusts as some hospitals continued to ask all but emergency patients to stay away amid uncertainty over whether some non-urgent operations and appointments would go ahead next week. However, UK government officials suggested no key data had been lost from the ransomware attacks. A total of 48 trusts were hit by the cyber attack on Friday afternoon, […]
Britain’s National Health Service reported a cyber attack on a number of hospitals on May 12, 2017 A fast-moving wave of cyberattacks swept the globe Friday, apparently exploiting a flaw exposed in documents leaked from the US National Security Agency. The attacks came in the form of ransomware, a technique used by hackers that locks users’ files unless they pay the attackers a designated sum in the […]
ABU DHABI // Rising temperatures and an increase in air pollution will put the lives of outdoor workers at risk in the coming years. The UAE Climate Change Risk and Resilience report published by the Emirates Wildlife Society with the WWF, predicted that higher heat and humidity will endanger health and decrease productivity. The report forecast global economic losses through decreased productivity of up to US$2 trillion, […]
Using immortal stem cells, scientists have developed a method to produce unlimited supply of red blood cells. The process is costly but the artificial blood may help patients with rare blood types and in cases of emergency when there is shortage of donated blood supply. Earlier approaches involve producing red blood cells that rely on various sources of stem cells that can currently only produce limited quantities. Jan […]
ABU DHABI and AL AIN // Hospital staff are witnessing an unprecedented number of patients with significant brain injuries as reckless driving and a culture of speeding takes its toll on the health service and the lives of young motorists. Surgeons said they were seeing up to 20 patients a day with substantial brain trauma in the emirate of Abu Dhabi alone. Of those, in 80 per […]
Egypt, 12 February 2017 Flight diversions due to inflight medical emergencies make up a tiny portion of the millions of flights operated annually, but it is costly for airlines. With more people traveling by air, the actual number of inflight medical events has been gradually increasing over the years. Emirates, the largest airline by international traffic, operates over 3,500 departures a week, or more than 194,000 flights […]
Designs have been unveiled for largest tertiary children’s hospital, the largest hospital of its kind in the world, which is to be built in Kuwait. Design firm SSH was appointed by Kuwait’s Ministry of Health and Ministry of Public Works last year, with the project being undertaken by SSH in association with global architects HKS and engineering firm WSP. The hospital will feature a total of 792 […]
Dubai, UAE, 26 January 2017 Al Fajer Emergency Medical Services (Al Fajer EMS), the UAE’s first non-hospital training centre for medical professionals accredited by the American Heart Association, is participating at the upcoming Arab Health 2017 exhibition which will be held from January 30 to February 2, 2017 at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. Al Fajer EMS has partnered with the global leader in the design and […]
