Dubai is one of the most preferred career destinations for qualified and registered Nurses from India and other countries supply nursing manpower. Dubai hospitals offer attractive living conditions, salaries, benefits including generous leave and leave time air travel ticket to and from the country of recruitment, free accommodation, medical insurance and end of contract payment.
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Cells taken from men’s testicles seem as versatile as the stem cells derived from embryos, researchers reported Wednesday in what may be yet another new approach in a burgeoning scientific field.
The new type of stem cells could be useful for growing personalized replacement tissues, according to a study in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature. [...]

The Greater Bay Area Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International (JDRF) announced today the locations for their 28th annual Walk to Cure Diabetes events which begin locally on October 18, 2008.
“We are excited to host Walk to Cure Diabetes events at five different locales around the San Francisco Bay Area this year,” said [...]

Diamyd Medical reports that the world’s most influential medical journal, the New England Journal of Medicine, has published an article with results from the company’s study of the Diamyd® diabetes vaccine for type 1 diabetes.
The article is now available on the journal’s web site (http://www.nejm.org) and will be in print on October 30. It presents [...]

The quietness and open design of the Toshiba Vantage Titan™ is dramatically improving the MR experience for patients. Health Scan Imaging has installed the Vantage Titan as the flagship MR machine at its new 5,000-square-foot location in Temecula, Calif. The system boasts a 71-centimeter opening, the largest in the industry, and patented noise reduction technology.
The [...]

Contrary to popular belief that seniors are hit the hardest when it comes to the recent economic crisis, a new survey from Medco Health Solutions Inc. reveals that the sting in paying for health care costs amid the ailing economy is in fact most acute among young adults.
According to the new national survey “Feeling the [...]

For the past 15 years, mission teams from Walker, Jefferson and Cullman counties have taken time from their busy schedules to go to Honduras to help meet some of its residents’ needs. What began with one team from Christ United Methodist Church with Dr. Tom Camp as the team leader has expanded throughout Alabama and [...]

Giving Chicago a first class future is the focus of tonight’s After School Matters Gala on the new runway at O’Hare International Airport — namely raising funds to make a long-term investment in the city’s teenagers. This year’s gala serves as an inaugural event for the airport’s newest runway while proceeds from the evening will [...]

Apria Healthcare Group Inc. announced that it has signed a preferred provider agreement with Smith & Nephew to provide Negative Pressure Wound Therapy services and products to the United States homecare market. The preferred provider agreement covers the rental of Smith & Nephew’s EZCARE and V1STA product systems and sale of associated disposables for [...]

Baby Boomers are turning sixty this year. Of the 3.4 million babies born between 1946 and 1964, 2.8 are still very much alive and projected to live another twenty years – at least. Baby Boomers currently make up over 26% of the total United States population, and their aging is already making significant impacts throughout [...]