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Middle East Hospital & Medical Review is the region's most comprehensive monthly trade publication for the Gulf and Arab World covering the heath and medical sectors in the Gulf and wider Middle East region.

Published in English, the language used by most of the decision makers in the region, MEH benefits from input from leading medical authors and specialist practitioners across the globe. The magazine is edited and published in the UK with editorial input from Bahrain, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia. We are perfectly positioned both regionally and internationally to assist companies introduce their products and services into this huge market and have a variety of services we can offer to help build commercial success in the Gulf Region. www.middleeasthospital.com

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Asian Hospital & Healthcare Management is a bi-annual magazine from Ochre Media. It is the leading Healthcare title in print as well as digital versions serving the information needs of key executives from the world's leading Healthcare providers. AsianHHM covers important issues and trends shaping the future of the Healthcare industry across Asia and rest of the world. It offers dedicated, reliable and accurate coverage of the industry's progress and incisive analysis to help its readers make informed decisions to stay ahead of the competition.

Dubai Healthcare City (DHCC) was launched in 2002 by the UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to meet the demand for high-quality, patient-centred healthcare. Today, DHCC is home to two hospitals, over 80 outpatient medical centres and diagnostic laboratories with over 1,700 licensed professionals occupying 4.1 million square feet in the heart of Dubai. DHCC combines the leading expertise of medical institutions and pre-eminent healthcare providers to deliver the A-Z of medical services. Visit: www.dhcc.ae

Employee Benefits Planner is an independent business journal published quarterly and contains reports on the business of benefit planning. It is written by health care professionals from the human resource management industry. Physicians, Attorneys, CPA's, PhD's and respected industry consultants all lend their expertise to analyzing the issues and writing articles. We are dedicated to maintaining the highest possible standards of editorial quality and integrity.

Based in Dubai Healthcare City, ExHealth offers an extensive portfolio of services that includes Healthcare Marketing, Management, Public Relations, Events and Publication. Staffed by a seasoned team of healthcare marketing, media and management professionals, our firm is in a unique position to understand the specialized needs of the healthcare sector. Accepting nothing less than complete fulfillment of its clients' marketing, media and management goals, ExHealth is committed to helping healthcare organizations transform themselves.

German Medical Journal Arabic-English - DIGITAL EDITION: Featuring the best of German medicine. The German Medical Journal keeps you up to date about the status quo of medicine and lets selected specialists from the various medical fields have their say. The Journal offers high quality and independent articles and insights in the up-to-date medical progress. German Medical Journal sets new standards and represents a brand new generation of the medical journal. The Digital Edition (eBook) provides the German Medical Journal with a worldwide boost. Through its English section the Journal reaches an interested readership throughout the whole world. The last issue of the German Medical Journal Digital Edition reached 211,371 reader accesses: as expected, a high percentage of them (54%) by readers from the Arab Gulf States. The issues of the German Medical Journal are available online as eBook and pdf Download at www.german-medical-journal.eu

German Medical Online - INTERNET PORTAL: The worldwide presence of German medicine shows what Germany has to offer. Get informed about German clinics, hospitals, MedTech, hotels and more. Anyone, anywhere in the world, looking for information about German clinics and companies, about medical treatment in Germany or medical equipment from Germany, can find detailed information in the German Medical Online Portal and immediately get in contact. Germany is only seconds away. www.german-medical-online.com

The Guidelines International Network (G-I-N) seeks to improve the quality of health care by promoting systematic development of clinical practice guidelines and their application into practice, through supporting international collaboration. G-I-N has the world's largest international guideline library containing regularly-updated information and guidelines of the G-I-N membership. The Network organises annual conferences rotating around the globe as a forum to exchange and meet with professionals and experts in the discipline. G-I-N is an international not-for-profit association of organisations and individuals involved in the development and use of clinical practice guidelines. It is a Scottish Guarantee Company, established under Company Number SC243691 and is also a Scottish Charity, recognised under Scottish Charity Number SC034047. www.g-i-n.net

Health On the Net Foundation is the leading organization promoting and guiding the deployment of useful and reliable online medical and health information, and its appropriate and efficient use. Created in 1995, HON is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, accredited to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. www.hon.ch

HealthFirst fulfills a niche role in the UAE magazine marketplace, featuring news, articles and special features that relate specifically to health and wellbeing within the emirates. The title examines common medical conditions, assesses the latest advances in the treatment of illnesses and discusses the important issues facing the regional healthcare sector. What sets HealthFirst apart from other health-related journals is that the title comprises information from professionals in a format that has been designed to be appealing, informative and easily accessible to those with no medical knowledge or experience. It is, in essence, a layperson friendly health and lifestyle publication.

HITM is a non-profit pan-European umbrella organisation for all relevant national healthcare IT associations in Europe. Believing in the fundamental importance of unifying healthcare IT managers at the European level, HITM is committed to increasing the professional authority and responsibility of healthcare IT managers and representing their interests to international institutions and associations. www.eahitm.org

The ISfTeH is the umbrella Society for National Telemedicine/eHealth societies/associations and exists to facilitate the international dissemination of knowledge and experience in Telemedicine & eHealth and to provide access to recognized experts in the field worldwide. It also counts Institutional, Corporate, Individual, Student and Nurses members. Currently more than 50 countries worldwide are already represented in ISfTeH. It is also an NGO in Official Relation with WHO.

Launched in April 1978, Khaleej Times was the first English Newspaper to be published in the UAE. In addition to its main news section, KT offers its readers a daily Business & Sports section, as well as six times a week, the highly entertaining City Times tabloid. Wknd, the newly designed & re-launched weekly lifestyle magazine is published every Friday. The new KT reflects the young and vibrant nature of the people of the UAE and reaches out to multicultural audiences with the sole aim of becoming the record paper for the region. Being the most dramatic re-design in Khaleej Times history by Pentagram, a prestigious New York firm, the paper is very reader friendly, sharper and elegant. With font changes and a six column grid to make navigation easy, the coverage will reflect positively, the news happening regionally and internationally. www.khaleejtimes.com

medi+WORLD International (mWI) is the largest publishing house in the Middle East, and publishes the Middle East Journal of Family Medicine (MEJFM), The Middle East Journal of Age and Ageing (ME-JAA), the Middle East Journal of Nursing (ME-JN), the Middle East Journal of Internal Medicine (ME-JIM), the Middle East Journal of Business (MEJB) and the South Asia Family Medicine Journal (SAFMJ). Additionally it publishes World Family Medicine (WFM) and the New Paradigm Journal.

mWI is also an accredited provider of postgraduate medical education for both delivery by NGOs and their own philanthropic services, to provide parity and equity of access to highest quality medical education for all people of the world, and runs World CME (a postgraduate CME/CPD programme) and MMU (Multimedia Medical University,).

Medical Technology Business Europe (MTB Europe) is an online magazine reporting on developments in the market place and the research lab in medical technologies, from the wide range of medical devices - covering areas such as diagnostics, imaging, laboratory systems, patient monitoring, surgery, prosthetics and IT - to the rapidly developing fields of biotechnology and nanotechnology. It also covers general health issues and trends that show where healthcare demands are both pulling, and need, technology developments. Market reports give detailed analyses of opportunities for business. Visit www.mtbeurope.info to keep up to date with the complex world of medical technology.

The Medical Tourism Association™ (Global Healthcare Association) is the first and only international non-profit trade association for the medical tourism and global healthcare industry made up of the top international hospitals, healthcare providers, medical travel facilitators, insurance companies, and other affiliated companies and members with the common goal of promoting the highest level of quality of healthcare to patients in a global environment. Our Association (Global Healthcare Association) promotes the interests of its healthcare provider and medical tourism facilitator members. The Medical Tourism Association™ (Global Healthcare Association) has three tenets: Transparency in Quality and Pricing, Communication and Education.

The Medical Tourism Magazine provides a comprehensive and cost effective way to reach buyers of healthcare and those involved in the Medical Tourism Industry. With the largest readership in the world in both its print edition and online edition, Medical Tourism Magazine is the only magazine dedicated to bringing those involved or interested in the industry the most cutting edge information.

The circulation of the Medical Tourism Magazine on average for its printed version ranges over 90 countries around the world in all 5 regions. The magazine's readership is over 120,000 per year; its printed distribution goes to International Hospitals, International Health Insurance Carriers in the Middle East, US, UK and Canada, healthcare providers throughout the world, the travel industry, directly to potential medical tourism patients considering going overseas for surgery, and anyone interested in the industry. The magazine also is distributed to a majority of the health plans which administer Self Funded Employer health plans in the U.S. The Medical Tourism Magazine is launched at www.MedicalTourismMag.com

MIDDLE EAST HEALTH is the leading independent English-language medical magazine for the Middle East and Levant. It is published in Dubai every two months and distributed to senior healthcare professionals and decision-makers in 12 countries in the Middle East and Levant. It has a distribution of 15,000 copies and a total readership of more than 65,000. Now in its 30th year, Middle East Health is highly respected and well established in the regional medical industry. Regular reader feedback says Middle East Health is relevant, topical, interesting and useful. Advertiser feedback confirms Middle East Health as the best vehicle to showcase their products to decision-makers in the healthcare industry right across the region - that's to the right people in all the right places. More information is available on the website: www.MiddleEastHealthMag.com

The Middle East Journal of Family Medicine (MEJFM) is a peer reviewed family medicine journal focusing on the Middle East region, and the World. The MEJFM is issued monthly and averages half a million readers per issue. Content focuses on real problems affecting people of the region as well as inter-country collaboration and research. It also attracts readers and papers from around the world. It is supported by the MEPCRN - Middle East Primary Care Research Network. The MEJFM is incorporated into the wider WFM (World Family Medicine Journal) www.mejfm.com

The aim of the Middle-East Academy for Medicine of Ageing: To stimulate the development of services to meet the health related problems in increasing number of older people in the Middle- East Area. To improve knowledge and skills of professionals, physicians, nurses and health care officers, in health related problems in older people, starting with a special interest in community care in the Middle-East area. To harmonise the attitudes and goals of future opinion leaders in approaching the health related problems of older people in the Middle East area. To establish a network among physicians, nurses and health care officers, responsible for the health care of older people and those responsible for medical and nurse students instruction, as well as general physicians caring for aged people. To stimulate scientific interest in the health related problems in older people. www.meama.com

MMU has been set up to provide Governments, Ministries of Health and health departments and education authorities, with access to highest standard medical education at greatly reduced costs due to the combination of multimedia and distance education. MMU therefore provides the opportunity to bring countries and doctors up to modern medical standards at reduced costs and shorter timeframes. MMU already provides full national medical education services and works with key education and government stakeholders. While MMU offers traditional medical courses via distance education - thus alleviating costs of travel and accommodation - it also provides strategic medical education and intensive medical education to overcome global shortages of trained medical personnel. All programs are authored by top medical academics in their field, mainly from developed nations and reviewed for doctors and patients in developing nations. Costs to participating practitioners are greatly reduced due to strategic delivery methods, while maintaining and promoting highest global standards.

The New Paradigm Journal is a unique concept focusing on the wider issues of human health and well-being and ion focus that includes holistic medicine and effective cost medicine. t promotes wellness and looks at diverse aspects of human health such as mind-body medicine and spirituality and medicine. www.NewParadigmJournal.com

Oasis Hospital was the first hospital that was established in the emirate of Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Located in the city of Al Ain, it was founded in 1960 by American doctors Pat and Marian Kennedy. CURE International assumed management of Oasis Hospital in 2006. Oasis offers high quality healthcare by western, Board Certified physicians and caters to a multi-ethnic population, of which 50% are local citizens. In 2009, ground was broken for a 200 bed, multi specialty, five-storey health facility that will see Oasis leverage its strength in maternity services to provide world class tertiary care for mothers and infants. Plans to set up an IVF center to offer fertility treatments are also in the pipeline. The hospital is also looking to expand its current specialty clinics such as Orthopedics, Otolaryngology (Ear, Nose, Throat) and The Eye Clinic, and introduce other needed medical specialties. The new hospital is scheduled to be completed by 2012.

The South Asia Journal of Family Medicine has just been launched to provide a wider focus on the needs of the South Asia region and is the Journal of the South Asia Primary Care Research Network (SAPCRN). www.safmj.com

UAE's first professional healthcare networking site with over 500 members, including dignities from health authorities, elite healthcare professionals, healthcare journalists and global healthcare experts.