NEWS
May 9, 2018
World Asthma Day was celebrated on May 1, 2018 with the theme “Never too early, never too late. It’s always the right time to address airways disease”. Organized by Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA), this year marks the 20th Annual World Asthma Day in collaboration with the World Health Organization (WHO). To mark...
March 7, 2018
Bachelor of Biomedical Science students with the faculty visited the 4th Annual Nobel Museum Exhibition on February 5, 2018 organized by the Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation (MBRF) in Dubai and also participated in the workshop. The theme of the event was “The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Connecting...
February 24, 2018
More than 2000 people, including families visited Thumbay Medical & Dental Specialty Center, Sharjah to attend the free mega health camp organized as part of Thumbay Group’s CSR program, on Friday, 16th February 2018. The event was organized with the aim of promoting health awareness among the public and offering them easy access to...
February 17, 2018
Students of the BBMS Program, College of Medicine visited the MEDLAB Exhibition which was held from 5 – 8 February 2018 at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre, Dubai, UAE. MEDLAB is the biggest laboratory and diagnostics exhibitions and conference worldwide. There were over 600 exhibitors and more than...
January 29, 2018
MBBS students actively participated in free mega health camps at Thumbay Hospital Day Care at Sharjah as part of community engagement Free Health Camps were organised by Muweilah and Rolla Branches of Thumbay Day Care Hospitals in the Emirate of Sharjah. The camps were organized in the month of January 2018 as part of CSR...
January 15, 2018
There are people in the world who are not as fully abled as us but can still give a doodie smile and goes about inspiring many. They are the determined ones. The 3 rd of December every year is globally observed as the International Day For The People With Disabilities which is promoted by the United Nations ever since 1992. It aims at...
December 13, 2017
Population Reference Bureau (PRB), a non-profit, demographic research and training organization in Washington, DC launched the new policy report on noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), entitled “Curbing the Epidemic of Noncommunicable Diseases in the Middle East and North Africa: Prevention...
December 11, 2017
INDEPTH Resource & Training Centre along with the Harvard Medical School, Dubai Campus; held a meeting on ‘Global NCD Research – Perspectives from INDEPTH and UAE Countries’ on Monday, 11 December 2017. Prof Gomathi KG was invited and participated in the meeting as a UAE scientist and the rapporteur for the “Discussion on Joint...
December 8, 2017
Dr. Gomathi KG presented her research work at the International Diabetes Federation Congress held from 4-8 Dec 2017 at the Abu Dhabi Exhibition and Convention center. The poster entitled “Pre-gestational Body Mass Index and development of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus in women of Arab ethnicity’ was part of the research work done...
November 11, 2017
Prof. Gomathi KG was a judge at the Dubai Medical College Intercollegiate Debate held on November 11, 2017. The topics for the debate were “Superbugs- have we become too dependent on antibiotics?”, “Online healthcare practitioner- Great idea or foolish career cutting? And “ In some countries everyone is automatically an organ...