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Joslin to open center in Dubai

Posted by Elizabeth Cooney April 28, 2009 03:11 PM

Joslin Diabetes Center has opened a new center in Dubai.

The Joslin Diabetes Center Affiliate at the Dubai Health Authority, on the campus of Al Wasl Hospital, will treat adults with diabetes. A pediatric unit is planned. Dubai is part of the United Arab Emirates, which is experiencing an increase in type 2 diabetes related to growing obesity.

Joslin's other international center is in Canada.

Other Boston healthcare entities with a presence in the region include Partners Harvard Medical International and Boston University Institute of Dental Research and Education in Dubai and Tufts University's Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy in Ras al Khaimah, another of the United Arab Emirates.

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Elizabeth Cooney is a former health reporter for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette, where she also was a business reporter and an editor. Earlier in her career, she edited medical books and journals at Little, Brown, and worked for Boston magazine.

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