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SAIB reports $139 million Q1 net profit

its assets increased by 20.08 percent to $43.65bn.

Nissan forecasts $5.3bn annual net loss

Last year, it announced 9,000 job cuts worldwide.

Saudia to acquire 20 wide-body aircraft

10 of these being acquired for its flydaeal low-cost airline

ADIB’s Q1 net profit $517 million

Q1 2025 net profit before tax increased 18% YoY.

Emirates Islamic Q1 profit $394m

The bank's profit crossed AED 1bn mark for the first time.

Closing the women’s health gap a boon for the global economy

Closing the women’s health gap is a US$1 trillion opportunity to improve lives and economies, the WEF and McKinsey Health Institute...

Positive trial for Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-flu jab

Berlin, Germany - Germany's BioNTech and US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer on Thursday announced "positive" results from initial trials of their combined...
  • The messenger RNA method made its debut with the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, which was the first jab against Covid to be approved in the West in late 2020
  • Pfizer and BioNTech first announced in November 2022 that they were planning to use the same technology to develop a combined Covid and flu vaccine

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Investment inks 3 MoUs at FII7

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA – The Kingdom’s Ministry of Investment signed three memoranda of understanding (MoU) in the fields of biotechnology,...
  • The MoUs related to the biotechnology and pharmaceutical sectors aim to explore, develop, manufacture and market a range of potential new medicines.
  • The MoU of the financial services sector aims to provide an opportunity for investors to invest directly in key projects in line with the Saudi Vision 2030.

Swedish researchers find snoozing in the morning isn’t bad

Stockholm, Sweden - You snooze, you lose? Swedish researchers said Wednesday that might not be the case, after their study even...
  • Researchers at Stockholm University found that in general younger people were the ones snoozing and they were to a high degree night owls.
  • In a second study, the researchers found that most of the respondents who snoozed for half an hour managed to get a lot of sleep during that half hour even though it was disturbed.

Markets fall as Biden set for Middle East diplomacy drive

US and European stock markets mostly fell and oil prices rose as US President Joe Biden prepared for a trip...
  • Wall Street opened in the red, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq shedding more than one percent, while Frankfurt and Paris fell 0.6 percent afternoon deal.
  • "Understandably, not many people are in the mood to put their hard-earned cash at risk in these uncertain economic times," said an expert.

WHO transports Gaza aid to Egypt, waits for humanitarian access

Geneva, Switzerland - The World Health Organization said on Saturday enough basic health supplies to serve 300,000 people in the Gaza...
  • The WHO supplies include enough medicines to treat 1,200 wounded patients and 1,500 patients suffering from various diseases.
  • The supplies were ready to go in once humanitarian access could be established through the Rafah crossing from Egypt into the southern Gaza Strip.

SFD to provide US$20m loan to Central African Republic for development projects

MARRAKESH, MOROCCO - The CEO of the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD), Sultan bin Abdulrahman Al-Marshad, signed an additional US$20...
  • The agreement was signed on the sidelines of the 2023 World Bank and International Monetary Fund Annual Meetings in Morocco.
  • The US$20 million loan agreement aims to finance development projects in CAR, including the establishment of a 250-bed hospital.

‘Broken in two’: Libya flood survivors grapple with mental health

Last month's flood was the latest catastrophe to strike the oil-rich North African country that has been wracked by war...
  • IRC warned of the "immense psychological toll the emergency is taking on those affected, particularly in the city of Derna, one of the areas hardest-hit
  • UNICEF's partners had "reported several instances of suicides, withdrawal, lack of sleep, bed wetting... among children, especially in shelters"

EU wants to renew herbicide glyphosate for next 10 years

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - The European Commission is proposing to renew the use of the controversial and widely used herbicide glyphosate in...
  • Current authorization expired in December 2022 but was extended by a year pending a scientific study of the herbicide.
  • Environmental activists said there was scientific evidence that glyphosate may cause cancer, poison aquatic life.

UN agencies warn of disease threat in Libya’s Derna city

UN agencies warned that Libya's flood-stricken city of Derna, where thousands were killed a week ago, faces the threat of...
  • The massive flash flood that killed over 3,000 people and left thousands more missing came as Libya was lashed by the hurricane-strength Storm Daniel.
  • “Teams from nine UN agencies have been on the ground delivering aid and support,” said the UN Support Mission in Libya.

EIH buys stake in Al Ain Pharmacy

Move aligns with EIH's aim to diversify sources of investment.
  • The acquisition is vital for EIH as it seeks to strengthen its investment in healthcare through its subsidiary Health Plus Holding.
  • The move will help provide additional and sustainable value to investors and achieve the maximum return on investment.

Stealth to Health: Medical innovation to combat silent killers

The future of healthcare is shifting towards decentralized, preventive care, leveraging AI to anticipate risks and improve long-term health outcomes,...

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Man vaccinated for Covid 217 times shows no side effects

Paris, France - A German man who deliberately got vaccinated for Covid-19 a whopping 217 times did not report any side...

As truce talks resume in Cairo, people in Gaza suffer from hunger

Heavy fighting rocked besieged Gaza as aid agencies warned of looming famine and new talks were held in Cairo towards...

WHO registers eighty percent rise in measles case

Geneva, Switzerland - The World Health Organization voiced alarm on Tuesday at the rapid spread of measles, with more than 306,000...

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HMG 2023 net profit $544m

The rise was due to the hospitals and pharmacy segments.
  • The increase in net profit came as revenues edged up 14.41 percent year-on-year (YoY) to US$2.5 billion (SAR 9.5 billion).
  • Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) rose 18.49 percent YoY to US$666 million (SAR 2.5 billion).

WEF24: AI-generated drugs promise cost reduction

AI is playing a critical role across the biomedical spectrum, from accelerating drug discovery to improving care delivery systems, says...
  • AI is playing a critical role across the biomedical spectrum, from accelerating drug discovery to improving care delivery systems, says Dr Alex Zhavoronkov of Insilico Medicine.
  • The latest technology enables end-to-end systems, and today, what we see is the true pinnacle of AI-powered drug discovery: the integration of AI and robotics, he adds

World’s biggest flying lab comes to Asia on air pollution mission

Clark, Philippines - NASA has kicked off a series of marathon flights in Asia with the world's biggest flying laboratory, in...
  • Starting this week in the Philippines, the US agency's DC-8 is flying for up to eight hours at a time, sometimes just 50 feet from the ground, to swoop up air particles for study.
  • Millions of deaths each year are linked to air pollution, and improving the ability to identify its sources and behavior can lead to more accurate warning systems for the public.