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Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Workshop helps doctors to give better treatment for diabetes | Kuwait ...

local21 Workshop helps doctors to give better treatment for diabetes

Dr Gordon Guyatt and Dr Fahad Al-Ghimlas

KUWAIT: ?A dream come true? is how Dr Fahad Al-Ghimlas, the chairman of the first Kuwait evidence-based clinical practice workshop described the event as he inaugurated it. Dr Al-Ghimlas, who is also a consultant in respiratory medicine and director of fitness and rehab center at Dasman Diabetes Institute, declared open? the workshop conducted in collaboration with McMaster University (Canada) as well as Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialization (KIMS). The workshop is part of the activities of Dasman Institute to improve the level of patients? care. He told the Kuwait Times that this will help the doctors acquire new critical appraisal skills, and treat patients in a better fashion.

He also informed that another event next week will focus on teaching the clinicians to improve their way of delivering information to their juniors and their patients, and will be held in cooperation with Harvard University.
Dr Al-Ghimlas said Dasman Institute focuses on teaching healthcare workers because ?we believe the network of professionals should work hand in hand to improve the health care system and deliver better medical care to our valued patients.?

He added that it was important to focus on other health care workers including allied health professionals, pharmacists, nurses and others ?just as we focus on educating our fellow physicians.? Meanwhile Dr Gordon Guyatt from McMaster University said ?what we are here to do is to train the residents, who are doctors in training, in what we call evidence-based medicine.? What EBM does is train the doctor to be able to read the medical literature, to be able to read the original research studies, so they are up to date with the best evidence and can apply it in their patient care.?

He said, ?We have a number of tutors at the workshop who take the rounds with the residents and deal with issues of therapy including? how to give the best therapy, reach best diagnosis and how to predict what is going to happen in the future? and to use the medical literature to do that.? He said the idea is if they understand how to use the medical literature, they can stay up to date and deliver the best care to their patients. When asked if this program will only be for doctors, or will also focus on other healthcare professionals, he said, ?We hope that it ultimately applies across all professions.?

He said, ?In my university, it was a very important part of the nursing program, and the physiotherapy programs.? On his part, KIMS Secretary General Dr Ibrahim Abbas Hadi said this is the first local workshop for the Kuwait Board Residency Program. He said, ?We currently have 25 residency training programs and there are a total of 935 residents enrolled in our program.? He said there is no course that teaches our residents evidence based practice, and this is currently a very important issue in medicine. He said, ?Our residents are learning how to become good physicians, but since they should also learn how to become good clinical investigators, we decided to run workshops for our doctors.

For this purpose, we studied various capacities and communicated with our program directors through KIMS, and they gave us a list of doctors, and we hope that over a period of one year, all our resident doctors will be able to benefit from our endeavours.? Dr Hadi thanked Health Minister Dr Ali Al-Obaid, and Undersecretary Dr Khalid Al-Sahlawi for their continued support for these workshops, and said he was confident that KIMS will evolve into an excellent future with regard to medical education. The workshop will continue until Thursday.

By Abdellatif Sharaa, Staff Writer

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Source: http://news.kuwaittimes.net/2012/12/04/workshop-helps-doctors-to-give-better-treatment-for-diabetes/

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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Video: Deck the Malls: Which Ones Are Thriving?

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Your Holiday Dinner Guests Will Love Dining Off These Testicle Plates

Nothing goes better with a delicious meal than an engaging conversation, and what better way to spark a discussion over dessert than to reveal to your guests that they're actually dining on fine bone china patterned to look like human tissue? And not just any tissue, but samples from the liver, thyroid, esophagus, and testicles. Yum. More »

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Europe v Facebook Privacy Campaign Group Is Preparing To Sue Facebook In Ireland, Sets Up Crowdfunding Platform To Fund Court Costs

The European activists behind the Europe v Facebook campaign group, which accuse the social network of violating Europe's Data Protection Laws, have stepped up their long running battle against it. The group has indicated it is preparing to sue Facebook in Ireland -- and has set up a crowdfunding platform to raise money to fund possible legal action.

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Monday, December 3, 2012

Bartholomew I of Constantinople?s Bold Green Stance

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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, center, in 2008.

At a conference near Istanbul last June, the chimpanzee expert Jane Goodall spoke about the endangered habitat of what she called ?our closest relatives.? Underlining the evolutionary link, she described her encounter with a senior male ape who had a ?beautiful white beard.?

With a smile, she turned to the 72-year-old man in the front row and added, ?Very much like yours.?

The man with the long white beard was Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, the spiritual leader of the world?s Orthodox Christians. Fortunately, he is known for his easy, affable manner, and he joined the laughter that followed.

But his commitment to environmental activism is deeply serious, earning him the nickname the Green Patriarch. He has preached that caring for the environment is a religious imperative, and for more than a decade, he has made a point of bringing together theologians and scientists like Dr. Goodall for debates and briefings.

This year?s reports of record melting of the earth?s ice sheets and extreme droughts have given a new urgency to Bartholomew?s messages about the degrading natural world. While economists and politicians prescribe more growth and consumption to overcome economic crises, the patriarch insists that the real crisis is cultural and spiritual, and can be overcome only by moving away from rampant materialism.

All human beings, he has said, should draw a distinction ?between what we want and what we need.?

In September, he published a strongly worded encyclical calling on all Orthodox Christians to repent ?for our sinfulness? in not doing enough to protect the planet. Biodiversity, ?the work of divine wisdom,? was not granted to humanity to abuse it, he wrote; human dominion over the earth does not mean the right to greedily acquire and destroy its resources. He singled out ?the powerful of this world,? saying they need a new mind-set to stop destroying the planet for profit or short-term interest.

Other religious leaders, including Pope Benedict XVI, the Dalai Lama and the archbishop of Canterbury, have also called for responsible stewardship of the environment. But Bartholomew has gone further than most; some theologians call his stance revolutionary.

?Traditionally in Christianity, sin was what you did to other humans,? said Kallistos Ware, a prominent Orthodox theologian based in Britain, ?but Bartholomew insisted that what you do to the animals, the air, the water, the land can be sinful, not just folly, and that was quite a change.?

Aides say that Bartholomew?s embrace of environmental issues is part of his agenda to modernize a deeply conservative church that can seem distant and insular, with its focus on long Byzantine rituals and mysticism. Speaking in defense of nature as a creation of God fits church teachings, and perhaps just as crucial, his aides say, it can also transcend the rivalries and nationalist rifts of the Eastern Orthodox Church. As a federation of 15 independent national churches, it lacks the central authority of, say, the Vatican.

Still, Bartholomew?s seat, established 1,700 years ago, holds primacy among the world?s 300 million Orthodox Christians. As ?first among equals? in the church, he acts as convener and can set the agenda for discussion.

Not all church prelates are inspired by his efforts to enlighten the faithful on the environment. ?The patriarch is going against the current in much of Orthodoxy,? said the Rev. John Chryssavgis, an archdeacon of the church and adviser on environmental issues. ?He has to preach and promote this constantly.?

Aboard a ferry steaming toward Istanbul, Father Chryssavgis pointed out a sprawling church-owned building perched atop of the island of Buyukada. A former orphanage, it was seized by the Turkish government but?returned to the church recently. Now empty and in disrepair, it will become an interfaith study center for the environment if Bartholomew has his way.

?He wants a permanent institution,? Father Chryssavgis said. ?When he passes on, there may not be the same concern for the environment.?

The impact of the patriarch?s many sermons and conferences is difficult to gauge. There has been wide interest in a new book, ?Greening the Orthodox Parish,? said Frederick Krueger, its American editor. Subtitled ?A Handbook for Christian Ecological Practice? and with a preface by Bartholomew, it covers theology, special liturgies and prayers as well as science papers and practical advice.

Numerous Orthodox monasteries and churches in Eastern Europe and the United States have switched to solar energy in recent years.

Among them is the Chrysopegi monastery on the Greek island of Crete, where the nuns use the environmental texts of the patriarch and other theologians in their teachings.

?More and more young people are coming to our courses,? Mother Theocheni, the abbess of the monastery, said at the conference at Halki, near Istanbul. ?They come to find meaning. Many seem to find inspiration in ecology. It?s been growing fast for the last 10 years.?

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/04/science/bartholomew-i-of-constantinoples-bold-green-stance.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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Asia Pacific Real Estate Convention and Expo 2013 - SME ...

Convention: 20 ? 22 March 2013
Exposition: 21-23 March 2013
Venue: Singapore Marina Bay Sands

The Premier Real Estate Event in the Asia Pacific Region

The Institute of Estate Agents (IEA), Singapore, is organising the 1st Asia Pacific Real Estate Convention & Expo (APRECE) 2013, to be held at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore.

APRECE 2013 will consist of a Convention to be held from 20th to 22nd March 2013 and an Expo to be held from 21st to 23rd March 2013. The event is supported by the National Association of REALTORS (NAR), which represents more than one (1) million Realtors in the United States of America. The event will also see the collaboration of more than fifteen (15) co-operating real estate associations from the region.

APRECE 2013 will also act as a platform for countries in this region to showcase their properties, products and services to real estate professionals and investors. The event will expect to see a huge number of developers, architects, consultants, real estate associations, real estate agencies, realtors, marketing tools providers, and other exhibitors converging in Singapore.

APRECE 2013 will be the meeting point for more than one thousand (1,000) real estate professionals from the region, coming together to learn and upgrade their skills from an array of international speakers/trainers at the Convention. The event will also act as the ideal international platform for real estate professionals to network and introduce their properties and services to one another. Visitors and investors to the Expo will be impressed by the international exhibitors comprising renowned developers from around the world to real estate solution providers.

The Convention & Expo Programme

A comprehensive 3-day Convention programme with distinguished speakers from the region sharing their knowledge in the areas of international property outlook, legislations, policies, taxes & regulations, property knowledge & ethical practices, professional business tools & skills development. Through a variety of breakout sessions, participants will learn from local and overseas industry professionals sharing various issues and topics in the international real estate arena.

The 3-day Expo programe will showcase the world?s property market, featuring international acclaimed developers from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Australia, India, USA, Vietnam, China, Hong Kong and many more. Visitors to the Expo will also witness the many goods and services offered by retailers, consultants, associations, real estate professionals and solution providers.

The Expo will also include public seminars for those wanting to know more about the properties, products and services showcased by the exhibitors.

There will be an APRECE Gala Dinner to be held on the 21st March 2013 at Marina Bay Sands. It is a ticketed event and participants are advised to book your tickets early to avoid any disappointments.