Wed 23 May 2012

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Former President Hosni Mubarak’s doctor said Tuesday that no one has asked him to submit a report about Mubarak’s state of health and whether he is capable of being transferred to the hospital at Tora Prison. “If Mubarak is...
The gulf state would never support the Salafis in Egypt, a prominent half-brother of Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah said on Sunday. “If they are receiving money from Saudi Arabia, it would be from Saudi Salafis, not the government,”...
Farkhonda Hassan, the head of the National Council for Women (NWC), is to be replaced by Mervat al-Talawy, the former minister of social affairs, informed sources have told Al-Masry Al-Youm. Hassan has been accused by anti-Mubarak feminists of being...
There is a shortage of 25 types of medicine for tumors, the heart, the chest and intensive care purposes, medical sources have said. Some of the drugs in short supply cannot be substituted with different drugs. Dr. Awad Gabr, president of a...
Prime Minister Kamal al-Ganzoury, who is tasked with forming the new national salvation government, presented his proposals to Hussein Tantawi, president of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, on Thursday. The new government would include six...
Minister of Health Amr Helmy decided to reward doctors and paramedics who took part in providing aid to injured protesters in Tahrir Square, as well as in the governorates where clashes took place between security forces and protesters last week,...
A senior official at the Health Ministry has denied that activist and blogger Maikel Nabil was referred to the Abbasseya Mental Hospital. “The statement by the Psychiatric Health Authority’s media department about admitting Nabil in the...
Egyptian author and columnist Anis Mansour passed away in the early hours of Friday morning at the age of 87.  Mansour was transferred earlier this week to the intensive care unit in Safa Hospital in Mohandiseen after his health condition...
Ahmed Atef, the coordinator of Doctors' Youth Coalition, mysteriously disappeared while on duty at Nile Hospital in Shubra, said Engy Abdallah, a doctor and one of the coordinators of an ongoing doctors strike, on Thursday morning. The Doctors...
A recent study indicated that the phenomenon of young Egyptian males marrying elderly foreign women is growing in Egypt. The study was prepared by the Prevention of Human Trafficking Unit at the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood....