Posted By
Najib
Oct 15, 2014 10:46
The Modeling of Biological and Socio-Technical Systems at Northeastern University in Boston published a list showing the countries in which Ebola is most likely to show up. The scientists used Ebola disease spread patterns and airline traffic data to come up with this table but keep in mind that this is the risk of a single imported case, not the risk of an outbreak. Even though Lebanon is on that list, the risk is less…
Posted By
Najib
Oct 01, 2014 08:11
Almost a year after his arrest, Dr. Farid Fata has pled guilty to 16 counts including health care fraud, conspiracy to receive kickbacks and money laundering. He admitted to administering anti-cancer drugs that were medically unnecessary and filing claims to Medicare he knew to be fraudulent. All in all, Fata's oncology centers submitted about $109 million in Medicare claims for chemotherapy and other cancer treatments between August 2007 and July 2013. What a horrible human…
Health
11 years ago
[YouTube] The Ministry of Public Health launched the 2014 National Hepatitis B&C Awareness campaign with the aim to increase awareness and understanding of the viral hepatitis in order to reduce the spread of the disease. ...
Food
11 years ago
If you like Quinoa, you should definitely try the one Super Dfouni makes. I’ve been having it almost every day for the past 2 months. It contains grilled Halloumi, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, olives, parsley, cranberries ...
Health
11 years ago
According to a new study by the Lancet, the world is getting fatter and the prevalence of overweight and obesity has increased in children and adolescents in developing countries to 12.9% in 2013 for boys ...
Health
11 years ago
This is great news to kick off the day! Simon’s family has been raising money online to cover the expenses of his surgery and they’ve received a huge support from all the Lebanese and collected ...
Health
11 years ago
Lebanese Health Minister Wael Abu Faour confirmed yesterday that a Lebanese was diagnosed with the coronavirus and that he was given the proper treatment and left the hospital. The MERS virus has killed over 120 ...
Health
12 years ago
[YouTube] Earlier in November, Lebanese scientists have joined with a host of officials and researchers in the region in declaring nargileh smoking a “global epidemic”. [Source] I think we all agree that smoking is bad ...
Health
12 years ago
Thank you Hady! Here are some of the pictures I got in support of the Movember Lebanon Campaign. If you want to have your picture featured on this post, just send it to najib@blogbaladi.com or ...
Health
12 years ago
[YouTube] Dr. Ghorayeb distinguished himself from other cardiac surgeons by avoiding the artificial hypnosis when carrying out a heart surgery. Dr. Gabriel Ghorayeb, brother of journalist Said Ghorayeb, is a surgeon in France. He treated ...
