Sharjah Ladies Club melds spiritual, health awareness

 As part of its ongoing efforts to deliver integrated awareness programmes, Sharjah Ladies Club organised a series of activities during the holy month of Ramadan, including educational and interactive...

UAE child in race against time for Dhs10.6 million life-saving gene therapy

Minutes are no longer just passing time in Yousef’s life, but have become a sharp divide between hope and despair. A child is withering before his parents’ eyes, and...

India to tackle global obesity with cheap fat-loss jabs

A deluge of weight loss drugs is set to transform the global fight against obesity as India prepares to unleash low-cost generic versions of injections like Ozempic after a...

Diet and fiction

UAE’s health sector marks World Obesity Day

The UAE health sector is marking World Obesity Day, observed annually on 4th March, through a series of national programmes and initiatives focused on prevention and promoting healthy lifestyles...

Alarming rise in childhood obesity troubling: Doctors

A war which has been damaging populations and that needs to be addressed by way of taking an earnest public-private partnership (PPP) stance on the environments society operates in,...

Hundreds of US nurses choose Canada over America

Earlier this year, Justin and Amy Miller packed their vehicles with three kids, two dogs, a pet bearded dragon, and whatever belongings they could fit, then drove 2,000 miles...

Respect heroes

Fourteen former cricketing captains have sought improved medical facilities for the imprisoned Imran Khan, former captain of the Pakistani cricket team and former Prime Minister of the country. I...

MAHA blames anxiety on poor diet, lack of exercise

Phillip Reese, Tribune News Service After a gruelling year of chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation to treat breast cancer, Sadia Zapp was anxious — not the manageable hum that had...

SEND reform cannot wait, neither can fiscal reality

Political consensus is an unusually rare commodity these days, but there does seem to be unanimous agreement that the present system for helping children with special educational needs and...