The American Hospital Dubai is a private hospital with 143 beds. They are running in the acute care, A general medical/surgical hospital which provided high quality American standard healthcare to the people in Dubai, the UAE and the surrounding Gulf States. Recently they hold recruitment for the Nurses, especially for the Register Nurse.
The American Hospital [...]

The Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center Health Care Career Pipeline Partnership (HCCPP), which has introduced hundreds of elementary school students to health careers since 2006, recently welcomed its first groups of high school students, thanks to a $250,000 grant from The California Endowment.
A main component of the HCCPP is hospital tours, which allow ninth and [...]

Use of the drug interferon as a long-term maintenance strategy to slow the progression of liver disease associated with the hepatitis C virus is ineffective, UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers and their colleagues from nine other institutions have found in a multicenter study.
Results of the 3½-year study, called the HALT-C (Hepatitis C Antiviral Long-Term Treatment [...]

GenVec, Inc. (Nasdaq: GNVC) announced that the company will present on GenVec’s malaria vaccine program at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) 57th Annual Meeting, which will take place in New Orleans, LA on December 7-11, 2008. Two presentations, highlighting research conducted in this program, will be given by GenVec scientists. Additional [...]

When women in four Norwegian countries began regular mammography every two years, breast cancer rates increased significantly, and this suggests that the mammography may have be detecting cancers that might have spontaneously regressed, according to an article released on November 24, 2008 in the Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
The start of [...]

A research team led by the La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology and Albany Medical College has illuminated the important role of natural killer (NK) T cells in Lyme disease, demonstrating that the once little understood white blood cells are central to clearing the bacterial infection and reducing the intensity and duration of arthritis [...]

Scientists in the US examining how human melanoma , a deadly form of skin cancer, spreads in mice specially bred to be vulnerable to cancer, found that there was a higher proportion of tumor causing cells in cancerous tissue than had previously been assumed, overturning the “stem-cell” theory of cancer which proposes that a only [...]

Nursing is a profession focused on advocacy in the care of individuals, families, and communities in attaining, maintaining, and recovering optimal health and functioning. Modern definitions of nursing describe it as a science and an art that focuses on promoting quality of life as defined by populations, communities, families, and individuals, throughout their life experiences [...]

Training physicians and caregivers to improve cultural sensitivity and communication with economically disadvantaged African-American patients could influence these women to get mammograms that could save their lives, according to a new study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
The study found that many African-American women perceive they are being treated with disrespect and receive inadequate [...]

From the sun’s UVA rays to tobacco smoke, our environment is chock-full of DNA-damaging agents that can lead to cancer. Thanks to our body’s DNA repair mechanisms, however, the effects of many carcinogens can be reversed thereby preventing the formation of tumours.
Now, according to a new study published in the early online edition of Proceedings [...]