News about Healthcare
U.S. Ambassador's blackmailing of Kazakhstan Healthcare Minister revealed
Former U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan sent a letter to Kazakhstan Healthcare Minister insistently recommending her to continue the methadone program in Kazakhstan.
23 July 2013 15:22
American surgeons giving master classes in Astana
American and Kazakhstan surgeons will be exchanging experience in cancer treatment for several days in Astana.
16 July 2013 18:55
100 doctors transplant organs from one donor to 4 patients in Kazakhstan
Transplantation to four patients from one donor was made in Syzganov National Scientific Surgery Center in Almaty for the first time in Kazakhstan.
12 July 2013 18:23
Kazakhstan allocates 600 quotas for IVF in 2013
600 quotas for in-vitro fertilization (IVF) were allocated for 350 thousand infertile families in Kazakhstan in 2013.
25 June 2013 13:36
Saudi announces four new deaths from MERS virus
Four more people have died from the MERS virus in Saudi Arabia, bringing the death toll from the SARS-like virus in the kingdom to 32.
18 June 2013 17:50
Pfizer to invest in clinical tests in Kazakhstan
The pharmaceutical giant will invest in development of clinical test centers in Kazakhstan.
14 June 2013 15:28
Spanish regions take steps to help needy children
To help children plunged into poverty by Spain's grinding recession, several regional governments have stepped up aid programmes for needy students.
07 June 2013 12:59
84-y.o. patient undergoes unique low-traumatic surgery in Almaty
A neurosurgeon from South Korea and Director of the International Medical Center Yim Dong Hwang made 6 surgeries for osteochondrosis, traumas consequences and other spine pathologies on May 14-17.
20 May 2013 15:46
Kazakhstan-made CT scanner presented at medical equipment exhibition in Almaty
The 20th Kazakhstan International Healthcare Exhibition KIHE-2013 was held in Almaty on May 15-17.
20 May 2013 12:18
Kuwait bars expats from morning treatment at hospitals
Kuwait is to bar foreigners from attending public hospitals in the mornings, local media reported on Thursday, in a decision activists labelled as "racist".
16 May 2013 15:00
SARS-like virus in Saudi has killed 15: minister
Fifteen people in Saudi Arabia have died from a SARS-like virus out of 24 people who contracted it since last August.
14 May 2013 10:00
DRC named worst place to be mother
The Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday displaced fellow African nation Niger to gain the unenviable distinction of being the worst place in the world to be a mother.
08 May 2013 10:01
Three new cases of SARS-like virus in Saudi Arabia
Three new cases of a new SARS-like virus have been detected in Saudi Arabia.
04 May 2013 14:41
Gene clues point to Cambodia for resistant malaria
Gene analysis of malaria parasites has pinpointed western Cambodia as the hotspot of strains that are dangerously resistant to artesiminin, the frontline drug against the disease.
29 April 2013 15:27
Kazakhstan microsurgeons tap into face transplantation surgeries
Kazakhstan microsurgeons will soon be able to perform face transplantation surgeries: Italian surgeon Salvatore D’Arpe.
22 April 2013 17:41
WHO team probes bird flu in Shanghai
A World Health Organisation team was due Monday to wrap up a trip to Shanghai, centre of China's bird flu outbreak which has killed 20 people, as part of an investigation into how the virus is spreading.
22 April 2013 14:58
US hospitals make more money when surgery goes wrong
US hospitals face a disincentive to improve care because they make drastically more money when surgery goes wrong than when a patient is discharged with no complications.
17 April 2013 17:43
60 families have kids via surrogacy in Almaty yearly
Kazakhstan's Family Law is the most democratic one in the world: Director of the Reproductive Medicine Institute.
05 April 2013 17:15
Kazakhstan's patient with artificial heart gets married
People who had surgeries on artificial heart implantation gathered in Astana to discuss problems of chronic cardiac insufficiency.
05 April 2013 14:42
Dementia costlier than cancer, heart disease: study
Dementia costs more each year in the United States than cancer or heart disease, with annual costs ranging from $157 billion to $215 billion.
04 April 2013 14:35