ERBIL — A member of the Iraqi parliament said on Monday that the country’s Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi has rejected a resignation handed in by the country’s health minister.

Alaa al-Alwan announced his official resignation on Sunday after alleged political pressure and defamatory attempts against him.

“Sadly, we are still exposed to a wide spectrum"...

In line with the UAE’s aim of providing leading healthcare services, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr Herve Ouanezar uses his expertise in knee surgery and sports medicine to treat athletes at Emirates Hospital Day Surgery and Medical Center, Motorcity and EMIRATES SPORTSMED – a leading sports and human performance clinic in Dubai.

In the past five years, there has been considerable progress in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction,"...

SULAIMANI — Graduates of the Dentistry College protested in front of the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) Council of Ministers building on Sunday (September 15), saying that the government should increase its hiring of qualified dentists.

The protesters told NRT Digital Media that it was important for them to gain experience working for the health ministry because private clinics almost always look for that as a qualification later"...

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is among the most common causes of infertility among women in the UAE. In order to address this issue, during the ‘PCOS Awareness Month’ in September, Fakih IVF is looking to reach out to all women by providing them with services that would educate them more on the subject.

PCOS is the most common endocrinopathy (hormonal disturbance) affecting reproductive aged women, with a prevalence of between 8"...

Samsung Bioepis Co., Ltd. today announced its expansion into the Brazilian biopharmaceutical market. The first product available in the country is BRENZYS™ (etanercept), a biosimilar referencing ENBREL®.i BRENZYS™ was approved by Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (ANVISA), the country’s health regulatory agency, in December 2017 for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, plaque psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis.

Aptorum Group Limited (Nasdaq: APM) (“Aptorum Group”), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapeutics to address global unmet medical needs, announces that it has initiated investigational new drug (IND)-enabling studies for ALS-4, a small drug molecule candidate indicated for the treatment of infections caused by Staphylococcus aureus (or “S. aureus”) including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA, i.e., one of the commonly known “super-bugs”)"...

Aptorum Group Limited (Nasdaq: APM) (“Aptorum Group”), a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapeutics to address global unmet medical needs, announces the development of two preclinical drug candidates which target obesity and neuroblastoma, respectively.

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The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson today announced positive results from two pivotal Phase 3 clinical studies (ASPIRE I & II) to evaluate the efficacy and safety of esketamine nasal spray in addition to comprehensive standard of care (SOC) in adult patients with major depressive disorder who have active suicidal ideation with intent. These studies were presented at the 32nd European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP), taking place September 7–10 in Copenhagen.

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Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ:CELG) today announced it will present 13 scientific abstracts, including new analyses from the Phase 3 ozanimod clinical development program in adults with relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (RMS), at the 35th Congress of the European Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ECTRIMS) in Stockholm, September 11-13, 2019. Ozanimod is an investigational oral, sphingosine 1-phosphate (S1P) receptor modulator that binds with high affinity selectively to S1P subtypes 1 (S1P1) and"...