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In our latest roundup of healthcare stories from Omnia Health Insights, curated by Content Executive Fatima Abbas, we reveal our healthcare coverage of recent events including Ramadan, and its benefits for diabetic patients, and World Haemophilia Day. We also look at longevity in the UAE and aphasia – a disorder that hit the headlines recently because of a Hollywood household name. Our latest Omnia Health Magazine furthermore offers updates on emerging healthcare technologies through exclusive interviews. They include 8chill Inc, whose founder and CEO shared insights into the metaverse.

In this episode, we chat with Dr Mohammed Al Redha, Director of Health Information and Smart Health Development at Dubai Health Authority (DHA), who shares insights on a cutting-edge project named NABIDH. NABIDH, as he explains, is a world-class health information exchange that securely integrates or unifies patient data from all public and private facilities in Dubai, resulting in improved quality and patient safety, reduced cost and evidence-based care. With more than 3,000 health facilities in Dubai, NABIDH will usher in an era of smoother and more efficient healthcare via a single interface.

How spritely are you feeling this today? In our latest roundup of healthcare stories from Omnia Health Insights you might have missed, curated by Content Executive Fatima Abbas, we reveal common sleep disorders in the UAE. We also look at new cancer treatments, while leading female voices in healthcare shared their perspective on breaking the bias in the industry. A new report from Omnia Health furthermore reveals insights shared by healthcare leaders speaking at Arab Health 2022 in January.

In our latest roundup of healthcare stories from Omnia Health Insights you might have missed, curated by Content Executive Fatima Abbas, we reveal how prostate cancer diagnostics and treatments have changed through innovation how new technologies can help with effective HIV care and preventative activities; and how foreign suppliers will now get equal consideration in Chinese government bids. New reports from Omnia Health furthermore reveal insights shared by healthcare leaders participating at Africa Health and Patient Safety virtual events.

In our latest roundup of healthcare stories you might have missed, curated by our Content Executive Fatima Abbas, we reveal a "flawed" approach to Type 1 diabetes care and how complications could be avoided; how men's mental health is impacted; and highlights from our recent Patient Safety virtual event. Reports from Omnia Health furthermore reveal insights into healthcare transformation offered by healthcare leaders - including transformation in Saudi Arabia, as shared by KPMG Saudi Arabia - and expectations for government spending in healthcare.

In this Patient Talk podcast episode, recorded in partnership with UCLA Health, paediatric neurosurgeon https://www.uclahealth.org/providers/aria-fallah (Dr Aria Fallah) discusses the latest advancements in paediatric epilepsy surgery, including deep brain stimulation, and how patients are responding. Dr Aria Fallah practices at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital and Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Westwood, and sees patients at the UCLA Health paediatrics office in Manhattan Beach. He is board-certified in neurosurgery by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, and board-certified by the American Board of Pediatric Neurological Surgery. He is also an assistant professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Healthcare experts during Africa Health and Medlab Asia and Asia Health virtual events revealed the latest thinking on COVID-19 testing, mental health and more, 18 months after the onset of the pandemic. New reports from Omnia Health additionally show how the pandemic has affected every member of the healthcare community, and how its impacted cancer care, along with future projections and expected treatments.

In this month’s news roundup of healthcare stories you might have missed, ProColombia US Director Ricardo Pedroza explains why Colombian healthcare is so appealing (including medical travel and emerging tech hub Medellin), while new technologies such as AI are explored in managing pre-diabetes today as a form of preventative care. Also we explain more about our new report into Laboratory Transformation today.

This month we offer a news roundup of healthcare stories you might have missed. Caren Busen (Director of International Clinical Support, OBIX) and Maria Mesa (COO, Alternova) reveal how they are addressing mental health challenges from a nursing leadership and digital health perspective, respectively. We also reveal research from Cleveland Clinic, University of Birmingham and PNAS journal relating to COVID-19 and patient cancer survival rates. And finally, what’s happening in medical tourism as international travel is disrupted completely? Listen and find out.

In 2020 the UAE became the first country worldwide in which the number of Covid-19 tests exceeded the population count, with local health authorities performing in excess of 10 million tests. Mubadala Healthcare's National Reference Laboratory (NRL), focused on increasing the quality, spectrum, coverage and efficiency of lab testing in the UAE and region, last year introduced an advanced virus-detection system and adopted new technology for delivering test results in record time. In this last Patient Talk episode, we chat with Dr. James Donnelly, Technical Director at National Reference Laboratory (NRL), to uncover more about how NRL responded to the pandemic and how they are innovating.

Harel Gadot is a visionary entrepreneur who prioritises patient-centric approaches in everything he does. His robotics ventures, including XACT Robotics, aim to revolutionise healthcare through treating patients earlier, from detection to diagnostics to intervention, ensuring that further complications are avoided. In this latest Patient Talk episode we uncover how his robotics solutions with radiology: offer a minimally invasive future, taking patients away from the operating room and enabling alternative, tailored treatments to surgery; target lesions smaller than 1mm; and benefit patients in rural China, Africa and India.

Robots are making their way into the operating theatre, ensuring greater precision and patient safety. In this latest Patient Talk podcast episode we chat with David Fischel, Chairman and CEO of Stereotaxis, a US-based robotic technologies company in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmia, to learn about robotic surgery and how the physician’s role is changing. In an engaging half hour conversation, Fischel sheds light on telerobotics, automation, big data and more.