Wamda

U.A.E

3D medical printing finds its footing in Dubai’s future

Launched in October 2015, Medativ is a Dubai-based 3D anatomical model printing company. The company name is a play on its products...

MEMakersGE Healthcare 3d printing

Global

Braci capitalizes on Europe’s growing hard of hearing market

Anwar Al Mojarkesh has built up a long list of inventions that he sought to one day realise. One was a “dancing pillow” that...

Braci sound alert MEMakersGE

Regional

Real innovation can only happen from within

I was recently invited to talk about innovation in healthcare in emerging markets at the Royal Society of Medicine’s Digital...

MEMakersGE Innovation

Morocco

The Moroccan doctor who wants to rethink medicine

Next year should be the first time a 100 percent Moroccan made medicine will be commercialized. Adnane Remmal, a biology researcher,...

biotech drugs Medical

Global

US digital health startup gets Hikma Ventures funding

Hikma Ventures announced today their participation in a $47.6 million Series B round for Chrono Therapeutics. Chrono is a US-based...

Investment Hikma Ventures MEMakersGE

Qidni Labs promises to clean out your kidney for an artificial one

End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) is when kidneys have stopped working well enough for patients to survive without dialysis or a kidney...

Qidni Labs Healthcare Artificial organs

Regional

Fortifying healthcare startups in the Middle East and North Africa

This article is a crosspost with the Stanford Social Innovation Review. AlemHealth, an Emirati medical startup, can remotely diagnose...

AlemHealth CardioDiagnostics AlTibbi

U.A.E

Dubai’s medical tourism prospects

More often than not, planning a visit to a foreign country is an ambitious undertaking. Adding a stopover for a medical treatment during...

MEMakersGE Medical Tourism Medigo

Syria

High risk, high reward: Mag Optics wants to change the way we see

Biotech is a high risk, high cost, high reward world. It's one that Mag Optics, a London-based startup founded by a Syrian...

MAG Optics lasik MEMakersGE

Egypt

How the Arab Spring planted seeds of innovation in Egypt [Podcast]

This podcast is a crosspost with Knowledge@Wharton. The 2011 uprising in Egypt that saw the overthrow of longtime President Hosni...

philanthropy Ahead of the Curve Egypt

Regional

Big data in health: good for anything yet?

Using big data in healthcare, anywhere, might it be true to say no one seems to quite know what they’re doing yet? But Dr....

Ver2 Digital Medicine MEMakersGE healthcare analytics

Egypt

Egypt's Smart Care secures $1.2M from major foreign donor

A major foreign donor has invested $1.2 million in Smart Care Medical Services, a digital healthcare management startup. The deal,...

U.A.E

Doctoruna: making healthcare accessible in MENA

Since they launched in 2013, healthcare appointment website and mobile app Doctoruna has been on a mission to minimize the all too...

DoctorUna MEMakersGE Bayt

Regional

MENA’s startup health movement: a MEMakers report

In a new report from Wamda Research Lab (WRL) in partnership with GE, we interviewed over 120 entrepreneurs, investors,...

startup health digital health MEMakersGE

Jordan

Hikma Pharmaceuticals launches $30M digital health venture fund in Amman

Hikma Pharmaceuticals has launched a $30 million strategic venture capital fund focused on digital health, therapeutics, and diagnostics...

Hikma Ventures Hikma Pharmaceutical MEMakersGE

Egypt

Startups want to tackle Egyptian health, but lack money

Ahmed Abu ElHaz CEO of Shezlong pitching at BDL2015 accelerate in Beirut. (Image via Shezlong) Egypt is fertile ground for...

Otlob Doctor MEMakersGE shezlong

Palestine

Exoskeleton gives the gift of movement

AZR’s exoskeleton prototype is being tested in the lab. (Images via AZR Team) Three Birzeit University students in the West Bank have b...

Handicapped Exoskeleton Birzeit University

Regional

6 areas of healthcare to watch in GCC

Healthcare spending in the GCC is going to grow exponentially, says a new EY report. Global professional services firm EY is predicting...

Vezeeta Gravilog MEMakers

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...

dieti supermama shezlong

U.A.E

Physicians and the future with 3D printing

How soon before the doctors of the Middle East embrace the possibilities of 3D printing? (Images via Jacqueline Sofia) Covering everything...

Arab Health Exhibition MEMakers AlemHealth

Regional

Offline healthcare going online in MENA

Not enough time for exercise? Perhaps apps might be of use. (Image via core0.staticworld.net) Healthcare. An increasingly diverse and...

Heathcare Fittpass The Wellness Log

Regional

Electronic medical services: health risks or new hope?

Checking your online pulse. (Image via Vanguard Communications) As the world commemorates World Cancer Day every February 4, cancer...

ehealth Cancer digital health care

Regional

How to leverage healthcare analytics to control healthcare costs [Opinion]

Healthcare costs directly impact an SME’s bottom line and overall competitiveness. Skyrocketing healthcare costs in the United...

healthcare analytics MEMakers Healthcare

Jordan

Foodlve recalculates the food equation

All your ingredients neatly packaged and in one place. (Images via Foodlve) Cooking is becoming less appealing as technology combined...

The Cherry Share Recipes Foodlve

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