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Four Emiratis gained global experience through a six-month internship at Saab in Sweden, across several of the world’s most advanced industrial facilities. SEEDS joins the company’s local partnership programmes to increase its Emiratisation rate across multiple departments.  

Abu Dhabi: Four Emiratis living with Parkinson’s disease have become the first to benefit from deep brain stimulation (DBS) procedures conducted in the UAE. The complex surgeries, which lasted between four and eight hours each, were carried out at the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and aimed to improve patient’s symptoms and quality of life. DBS is a neurosurgical procedure that places a medical device called a neurostimulator under the patient’s skin. The device then sends electrical impuls...

The process involves implanting a small device into precise areas of the brain, and its function is similar to that of a heart pacemaker.