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COVID-19: Iraq Extends Partial Lockdown
August 9, 2020
ERBIL - Iraqi authorities on Saturday decided to extend the partial, nationwide lockdown to better contain the spread of the coronavirus in the country. The partial lockdown will be extended until August 15, the Iraqi government said in a statement, noting that all provinces and districts will also be placed under a complete lockdown on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. However,"...
Medical warehouse burns in Kirkuk as coronavirus numbers rise
August 9, 2020
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – A large medical warehouse storing medications needed to treat coronavirus in downtown Kirkuk caught fire on Friday. The crucial supplies were destroyed as numbers of new cases rise on a daily basis.
The fire started place around 6:00 Friday and was extinguished about two hours later. Firefighters had to break through the walls of the building to access the interior.
The warehouse belonged to Kirkuk’s Great Hospital, one of the main hospitals in the city. It was"...
Defiance of travel ban prompts coronavirus spike in Duhok province
August 6, 2020
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — A number of Duhok villages have been placed under quarantine as the number of infected continues to rise across the province. Once one of the safest provinces during the pandemic, Duhok’s virus rates have increased dramatically since the beginning of the Eid al-Adha holiday in late July, and is said to be partly due to travel between different Kurdistan Region provinces. Two"...
Eyenuk Announces FDA Clearance for EyeArt Autonomous AI System for Diabetic Retinopathy Screening
August 6, 2020
Eyenuk, Inc., a global artificial intelligence (AI) medical technology and services company and the leader in real-world applications for AI Eye Screening, announced today that it has received 510(k) clearance (K200667) by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to market its EyeArt® autonomous AI System for diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of blindness among American adults. EyeArt is indicated for use by healthcare providers to automatically detect more than mild diabetic retinopathy (mtmDR) and vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy (vtDR) in eyes of adults diagnosed with diabetes who have not been previously diagnosed with more than mild diabetic retinopathy. EyeArt is the first FDA cleared autonomous AI technology that can detect both mtmDR and vtDR in one test, in primary care and eye care settings. In addition, EyeArt is also the first FDA cleared autonomous AI technology......
Vifor Pharma Group Reports Continued Growth in H1 2020
August 6, 2020
- Net sales and EBITDA continued to grow in H1 2020 despite challenging market conditions due to COVID-19
- Ferinject®/ Injectafer® demand impacted by global COVID-19 restrictions
- Sustained growth in nephrology supported by dialysis business
- Veltassa® net sales impacted by reduced promotion to nephrologists due to COVID-19
- Etienne Jornod stepped down as Executive Chairman; Stefan Schulze appointed CEO of Vifor Pharma Group and Jacques Theurillat elected non-executive Chairman in May 2020
- Financial guidance 2020 updated to reflect...
WHO: ''There’s no silver bullet to defeat coronavirus, there might never be''
August 4, 2020
Washington DC, Aug. 3 (Petra) -- The World Health Organization warned on Monday that, despite strong hopes for a vaccine, there might never be a 'silver bullet' for COVID-19, and the road to normality would be long.
More than 18.14 million people around the world are reported to have been infected with the disease and 688,080? have died, according to a Reuters tally, with some nations that thought they were over the worst experiencing a resurgence.
Scientists have made progress in identifying"...
For Iraqi mothers-to-be, hospitals are pandemic no-go zones
August 4, 2020
KUT, Iraq — Iraqi midwife Umm Mariam used to help bring three babies into the world per day. But with mothers-to-be avoiding pandemic-hit hospitals, she now delivers twice that number in her makeshift home clinic.
Across the country recovering from decades of war, health centres face shortages of oxygen supplies and protective equipment even as coronavirus cases soar to almost 130,000, with nearly 5,000 deaths.
Among those infected in the economically battered country, according to official"...
Patient Safety Movement Foundation, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, The Leapfrog Group, and the International Society for Quality in Health Care Join Forces for #UniteForSafeCare World Patient Safety Day Campaign
August 4, 2020
Today, four leading global organizations dedicated to fighting preventable deaths due to medical errors announced their partnership to co-convene the #uniteforsafecare program on World Patient Safety Day (September 17, 2020). In June, the Patient Safety Movement Foundation announced the wide-ranging campaign to bring attention to system-wide improvements that will ensure better health worker and patient safety outcomes, called #uniteforsafecare. Now, the organization will be joined by the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), The Leapfrog Group, and International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) in co-convening the slate of programming, which includes a virtual physical challenge to raise awareness of the issue; collaboration with the National Association for Healthcare Quality’s annual conference, NEXT; an in-person demonstration in Washington, D.C. and a free virtual......
KRG Introduces New Measures on Face Covering in Public
August 4, 2020
ERBIL - The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) on Monday introduced several new measures on face covering in public to better contain the spread of coronavirus. Restaurants, supermarkets, and other related public places are asked to not allow people to enter the sites unless they wear face masks, otherwise they would face legal actions. Cafes, resorts, and public parks"...
Health’ says in no hurry to ink vaccine procurement contract
August 4, 2020
KUWAIT CITY, Aug 3: The Ministry of Health confirmed yesterday that its endeavor to secure medical vaccines that international research institutions are working to produce in order to confront the emerging coronavirus (Covid 19) does not mean signing the procurement contract before the vaccine is approved by international health organizations to ensure its safety and effectiveness, reports Al-Seyassah daily. The ministry in a press statement said"...
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