Mar Youssef Hospital Surrounded by Garbage

Lebanese politicians have been working hard since last year to regain the first spot as the least trustworthy in the world and they seem to be on track to regain that prestigious title. After inaugurating a new landfill right on the beach in Costa Brava and posing a potential hazard to aircraft operations and reviving the garbage crisis on its first anniversary, they pulled their biggest move by surrounding Dora's only hospital with garbage. The…

CardioDiagnostics: Cloud-based Heart Monitoring Powered by Microsoft

Ziad Sankari was 17 years old when his father died of a heart attack. Ever since, Ziad has dedicated his career to cardiac care and has founded in 2012 CardioDiagnostics: an award-winning medical technology innovation company specialized in the R&D of breakthrough cardiac monitoring technologies. CardioDiagnostics uses FDA-approved wearable devices that are 24/7 GPS-enabled heart rate monitors allowing for heart monitoring centers to communicate diagnostic and preventive information to patients in the United States and…
Critiques

Aerial View of the Costa Brava Landfill

8 years ago
The Costa Brava landfill looks bad, it smells terrible and it’s located at the worst place possible. People living next to the landfill should have been evacuated prior to its opening and proper measures should ...
Health

How Badly Polluted is the Litani River?

8 years ago
Polluted Litani River Photo Credits: Gettyimages/JosephEid There are over 150 farms using Litani’s polluted water to irrigate crops even though the Litani is no longer suitable for swimming or irrigation. The high levels of pollution ...
Critiques

Shameful “Anal Exams” Still Taking Place in Lebanon

8 years ago
Human Rights Watch published an 82-pages long report on the forced anal examinations on men and transgender women accused of consensual same-sex conduct in which cases were reported in Lebanon in the past five years. ...
Health

Help 56 Year Old Rozine Moughalian Raise Funds For Her Liver Transplant

8 years ago
Rozline’s daughter Catherine Moughalian This is a truly painful story. I wish I could do more than donate a bit of money and spread the message but I can’t. I think someone should try to ...
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Full Hospitalization Coverage For Lebanese Above 64

8 years ago
Photo Credits: Al-Akhbar Lebanon’s Public Health Minister Wael Abu Faour announced that he will implement soon a new plan to provide full medical coverage after retirement in an attempt to “bridge the gap between the ...
Critiques

It’s Summer Season: Authorities Move Landfills To The Beach

8 years ago
Where’s the best place to set up a new landfill? Right on the beach of course. The Costabrava landfill was approved by the Lebanese government 3-4 months ago and residents of the area are literally ...
Health

In Case You Missed MTV’s “Roghem Kel Chi” Yesterday

8 years ago
I had no clue bragging about my brother’s achievements would get him on prime time news! Special thanks to MTV & Byblos Bank for this cool feature. ...
Health

A Report On The Beach Water Quality Along Lebanon’s Coast

8 years ago
Tripoli Beaches – Photo Credits: Souad Sbaiti This is a follow-up on a post I wrote back in April. A sea water monitoring study was conducted by the National Center for Marine Sciences (I had ...
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