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Lebanon

The MENA embraces more healthtech advancements

The global healthcare expenditure will be growing from $7.7 trillion in 2013 to $9.6 trillion in 2018. Digital transformation is...

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Lebanon

Nanotech is emerging in the MENA’s healthcare sector accentuating inventions and opportunities

The global nanotechnology industry is expected to grow to reach almost $76 billion by 2020. But what is it exactly? Nanotechnology is...

lebanon healthtech Nanoskin

U.A.E

Six healthtech startups pitch during Dubai 100 finale

Investors and healthcare industry leaders from UAE and around the world came together for the finale of Dubai 100’s second...

Dubai 100 pitch event healthtech

Lebanon

Proximie’s AR tool delivers healthcare to war zones

The idea came about during a 2012 mission to El Salvador. As a volunteer with the Global Smile Foundation, Boston-based Lebanese...

healthtech Augmented Reality Proximie

Palestine

Gaza’s Swift Braille helps the blind use smartphones

Swift Braille is a smartphone app that aims to help visually impaired and blind people communicate with others in writing. Worldwide...

SwiftBraille blindness Gaza

Regional

MSD Innovation Factory

MSD is eager to find new and better ways to provide healthcare services to patients and healthcare professionals around the world. That...

healthtech biotech Healthcare

Lebanon

App aiding facial paralysis wins 10K at BDL Accelerate hackathon

An app that aids patients with facial paralysis won the $10,000 prize at Lebanon’s BDL Accelerate conference health hackathon on...

healthtech Health hackathon BDL Accelerate

Saudi Arabia

Cura connects Saudis with specialists

When Cura cofounder Abdullah Alswaha wanted to see a specialist about an ear infection, he found out first hand how difficult it was to...

Cura digital health MEMakersGE

Saudi Arabia

Triage Project redefines medical aid in KSA

Team leaders of the triage project at the first workshop at King Abdulaziz Public Library in January (Images via Triage) Oil-rich Saudi...

The Triage Project healthtech Saudi Arabia

Lebanon

Listen to your heart: behind CardioDiagnostics' decision to open up to patients [Video]

Lebanese entrepreneur Ziad Sankari is a man on a mission: he has a very personal reason to improve cardiac health and his startup,...

healthtech healthcare analytics CardioDiagnostics

Regional

MENA startups are taking on women’s health

Women are vastly underserved by healthcare systems in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Limited access to high-quality and...

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