‘Weekend effect’ affects senior head trauma patients

Older patients with head trauma more likely to die on weekend stays, says new review

Triple transplantee scores 3 golds at Transplant Games of America

Lung and kidney transplant patient two gold medals in bowling and one gold medal in basketball

Toshiba Medical opens procurement center in Shanghai

‘Telehealth’ may change future of medical care

Governments of India and China seen rapidly adopting telehealth to cater to the needs of the huge rural patient population

HK Sanatorium acquires skin therapy system

Sensus Healthcare announces sale of its SRT-100 therapy system to Hong Kong Sanatorium & Hospital

Device helps ALS patient to breathe without ventilator

Device is implanted using minimally invasive laparoscopic techniques to provide electric stimulation to the muscle and nerves in the diaphragm

First IHOP restaurant opens in the Middle East

DSM to acquire Tortuga for €465 million

Acquisition of Brazilian company will strengthen animal nutrition business

Grapefruit juice lets patients take lower dose of cancer drug

This is the first cancer study to harness this drug-food interaction, the authors note

Buffalo Wild Wings flies to the Middle East

Restaurants to open in the Middle East 2013

EFSA aspartame re-evaluation extended to May 2013

Heavy junk food diets lead to lower IQ

Study shows that children who were breastfed at six months and had a healthy diet at 15 and 24 months had an IQ up to two points higher by age eight