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KSSC declare CP shooting season open
KUWAIT: The Higher Organizing Committee of HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah annual Shooting Championship to be launched Saturday, completed its preparations to host the competitions with the participation of a large number of Gulf and Arab teams in addition to Kuwait team, and declare the shooting season open.Secretary General of Arab and Kuwait Shooting Federations, Tournament Director Obaid Al-Osaimi distributed a...
KUWAIT: Dr Khalid Al-Saleh (right) presents Dr Bader Al-Dhafiri with an appreciation plaque at the event.
Men above 50 urged to get checked for prostate cancer
KUWAIT: Men over 50 years old should adopt a healthy lifestyle and get prostate cancer screenings regularly, officials urged at the launch of an awareness campaign for prostate cancer. Cancer Awareness Nation (CAN) campaign, in cooperation with Kuwait Urological Association (KUA) launched the “Kuwait Campaign for Awareness of Prostate Cancer at the age of 50” on Monday. Chairman of the Board of CAN Dr Khalid Al-Saleh said 2020 statistics...
Hamad Al-Ruwaisan and Khalid Al-Jurayed
Delegations begin to arrive for CP shooting championship
KUWAIT: Delegations participating in HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah Shooting Championship began arriving in Kuwait as the Qatari and Bahraini delegations will arrive today.Meanwhile the Higher Organizing Committee, headed by President of Kuwait and Arab Shooting Federations Eng. Duaij Al-Otaibi carry on its preparations to continue the usual outstanding organization of tournaments that enjoy the respect and...
Obaid Al-Osaimi
CP shooting tournament to be launched Saturday
KUWAIT: Kuwait and Arab Shooting Federations Secretary General, Director of HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah annual shooting tournament Obaid Al-Osaimi said the shooting community waits every year for HH the Crown Prince shooting tournament, in which a large number of Kuwait and Gulf shooters participated, as this year’s championship will be launched Saturday.Al-Osaimi, said “on behalf of the chairman and board...
(From left) Abdullah Barakat, Obaid Al-Osaimi, Duaij Al-Otaibi and Hamad Al-Ruwaisan.
CP shooting tourney will be the club’s best launch of new season
KUWAIT: HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Khalid Al-Hamad Al-Sabah annual shooting tournament will be the best launch of the club’s new season (2024-2025), said President of the Kuwait and Arab Shooting Federations Engineer Duaij Khalaf Al-Otaibi.Al-Otaibi who chairs the higher organizing committee said during a press conference that the tournament will include all Olympic competitions for men and women, that is the shotgun (skeet and trap), ...
Dr Ahmad Al-Shatti
Al-Dabbous Center treats 10 complex cases of pulmonary embolism
KUWAIT: Al-Dabbous Center in Al-Adan Hospital has performed 10 complex procedures to treat pulmonary embolisms, some of which were done using the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) system, said Dr Ahmad Al-Shatti, Head of the Cardiac Catheterization Unit at the center.The cases, he said, had no other treatment options besides catheterization. In a press statement on Saturday, Dr Al-Shatti explained that the most modern medical treatment...
KUWAIT: People pose for a photo at the International Tobacco Control Conference.
GCC should raise tobacco taxes to fight smoking
KUWAIT: The GCC should increase taxes on tobacco products to 73 percent to align with World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations, a conference recommended Tuesday. The International Tobacco Control Conference, held on October 27-28, 2024, in Kuwait, said GCC countries should also allocate financial and human resources to enforce tobacco control laws. It focused on battling conflict of interest in tobacco control efforts, calling on Arab...
KUWAIT: Chairman of the Board of Kuwait Society for Smoking and Cancer Prevention Dr Khalid Al-Saleh (right) presents Health Minister Dr Ahmad Al-Awadhi (center right) with an award in the presence of Hamad Al-Rasheed and Dr Hussa Al-Shaheen (left).
Vaping as harmful as smoking tobacco: Doctor
KUWAIT: Kuwait is exerting continuous efforts in cooperation with NGOs to confront the fatal scourge of smoking through a comprehensive strategy that relies on enforcement, prevention, and treatment, said Health Minister Dr Ahmad Al-Awadhi.The statement came during his opening speech at the International Tobacco Control Conference titled “The Smoking Epidemic and Conflicts of Interest,” organized by the Kuwait Society for Smoking and Cancer...
Winners of the tournament and other participants pose for a group photo.
CAN organizes table tennis championship
KUWAIT: The Second Women Table Tennis Championship organized by Cancer Aware Nation for women with cooperation by the Kuwait Society for the Blind concluded with a ceremony of distributing awards to the winners in the presence of CAN board member who is in charge of this month’s breast cancer awareness initiative Dr Hussa Majid Al-Shaheen.Dr Al-Shaheen started the event by congratulating Chairman of the Blind Society Fayez Al-Azmi on the 52nd...
KUWAIT: Attendees are seen at the conference as part of the Sabah Al-Ahmad Heart Center's awareness campaign on heart diseases and their risk factors.
Half of Kuwaitis have high blood lipid levels: Doctor
KUWAIT: About 50 percent of Kuwaitis have high lipid levels in their blood, increasing their risk of heart disease, according to Dr Ahmad Al-Sarraf, head of the Lipid Diseases Department at the Sabah Al-Ahmad Heart Center.Speaking at a conference as part of an awareness campaign on heart diseases and their risk factors, Dr Al-Sarraf highlighted that heart diseases and arterial sclerosis are major causes of death, not just in Kuwait but globally....
Khalid Al-Bader Al-Sabah seen with Raja Singh
OCA’s chief discusses means in developing Aquatics games in Asia
KUWAIT: President of Olympic Council of Asia Raja Randhir Singh thanked HH the Amir Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah for the good reception during his visit to Kuwait.He said that he visited Kuwait several times, the first of which was in 1983 to meet the Martyr Sheikh Fahad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah one year after moving the OCA headquarters from India to Kuwait and “my visits...
KUWAIT: Attendees pose for a photo at the event.
Public awareness key to limit effects of atrial fibrillation
KUWAIT: Salman Al-Dabbus Heart Center organized a conference on atrial fibrillation under the theme “Regulate your pulse ... save your Heart”. Electro cardiologist consultant Dr Fawziya Al-Kandary, along with experts in this field in the Arabian Gulf region and the US attended the event, where they discussed diagnosis and treatment of atrial fibrillation.Head of Heart Diseases Department of Adan Hospital Electro-cardiologist Samah Al-Kharji...
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KUWAIT: Cabinet ministers, led by Acting Prime Minister Sheikh Fahad Yusuf Saud Al-Sabah (right) are seen during their weekly meeting on Tuesday. — KUNA
Cabinet approves appointments, supports violation removal efforts
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EU-GCC Business Forum to foster trade with Kuwait