Nicotrax, a digital health organization, focuses on creating data-driven, customized, and scalable software programs to better treat addiction by applying predictive and powerful AI, and a seamless user experience Nicotine is known to be the main addictive substance in cigarettes and other forms of tobacco and a drug affecting many parts of a smoker's body. As time passes, the smoker's brain and body gets used to having it in cigarettes. Around 80 per cent to 90 per cent smokers are addicted to nicotine. Nicotine…
Day: February 16, 2019
Investing in GCC healthcare
The recent report by Arab Health Exhibition and Congress identifies the key drivers for the long term development of the region's healthcare sector As a consequence of falling oil prices, diversification of the economy has remained a priority for governments across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in recent years. Throughout troubled economic times as well as during fiscal stability, spending on healthcare has continued to grow. The private sector has increasingly been considered as a key partner in the long-term development of the healthcare industry, particularly…
A bio-inspired technology to help with faster recovery
The allusion to tissue reconstruction is a reference to the fact that each of the applications for its polymers, including SETALUM Sealant, is intended to support the body's natural healing process to promote recovery Adhesives and sealants have existed since time immemorial. Some of the earliest sealants were extracted from sources or processed from products like latex and animal proteins. However, technological development in the modern world has brought about new ways of formulating these adhesives and sealants. The chemical…
Dubai’s healthcare sector to continue to witness growth
Knight Frank underlines that the sector's expansion is to be driven by consolidation, public private partnership opportunities, and introduction of highly specialized health services Dubai is among the most, if not the most, rapidly evolving cities in the world, which embraces knowledge, technology and innovation with open arms. Dubai's ambition of becoming the world's smartest city by 2021 is case in point of this ambition and openness. The healthcare sector is one of corner stones for this rapid change, as it is ticks all the boxes relating to adoption…