In a new medical and scientific achievement added to the distinguished record of Arab and international expertise, Professor Abdallah Raweh, the internationally renowned cardiac surgeon, has been awarded the Golden Lion for Medicine as part of the International Grand Prize of Venice, one of Europe’s most prominent awards honouring
At the end of the Second World War in 1945, following the surrender of Germany and Japan, we were living in a ground-floor apartment on Hammouda Street, just a few meters from the southwestern outer wall of Abdeen Palace. This was due to the lack of available accommodation in my grandfather’s building at 24 Mostafa Kamel Street in
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have synthesised for the first time a complex fungal compound known as verticillin A, discovered more than 50 years ago and long viewed as a potential anti-cancer agent.
Verticillin A has a highly intricate structure that has made it far more difficult to synthesise than
An Alzheimer’s drug deemed too costly for the National Health Service (NHS) can slow progression of dementia by up to eight years, researchers have claimed.
Medicines assessor NICE ruled in June that the benefits of two breakthrough therapies were too modest to justify the price, after trials showed they could delay progression from
A Global Challenge in Numbers
The progress made in cell therapies to treat the most severe cases of diabetes marks a significant scientific milestone. However, it is important to recognize that while a few thousand transplantation of insulin-producing cells can be life-saving for individual patients, such interventions will have limited
