Health

The vaping industry will take centre stage in Dubai for the first international World Vape Show in 2020. Just five months ago, the official sale of e-cigarettes was outlawed in the UAE. New regulation on the sale of registered products launched in April, opening the door for Dubai to host …

A spray which blocks the effects of opioid abuse among drug addicts has helped to save 14 lives in Dubai. Earlier this year, paramedics from Dubai Ambulance Service were given 100 cans of naxolone, which reverses the effects of opioid medication, including extreme drowsiness, slowed breathing and loss of consciousness. …

A woman who had a tumour the size of a grapefruit removed from one of her major veins has recovered from what doctors described as “one of the most complex cases they had ever seen”. Mai Mohammed, an Egyptian living in Abu Dhabi, visited a private clinic in April after …

Two young patients at a children’s hospital in Dubai received surprise visitors to their ward — the President and First Lady of their home country. Julius Maada Bio, the President of Sierra Leone, and Fatima Maada Bio, his wife, spent time at Al Jalila Children’s Speciality Hospital in Dubai last …

Rashid Hospital ranks among top 10 health facilities in orthopedic and trauma surgery services in providing specialized orthopedic and trauma surgery services according to a report by Johnson and Johnson. Rashid Hospital received this recognition due to the number of successful surgeries it conducted, which totals to 6,000 bone and fracture …

Abu Dhabi Health Services Company, SEHA, has announced the results of achieving a new milestone in Peritoneal Dialysis. Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, SKMC, part of SEHA’s network, has successfully completed 60 kidney transplant operations since 2018, 35 of which were successful kidney transplant operations from living donors and five from …

Smart Dubai unveiled a new Artificial Intelligence, AI, use case in the healthcare sector that allows healthcare professionals to pre-emptively predict a patient’s condition by tracking six vital signs, including blood pressure, temperature, and the pulse, among others. Nurses feed this data into the high-precision AI system, which analyses it …

A new research has found that if mothers do not get enough sleep, it will have a negative impact on their parenting. Sleep-deprived mothers have a greater tendency to engage in ‘permissive parenting’ that may cause risky behaviours in their adolescent children, Asian News International, ANI, reported on Sunday, quoting …

A doctor specializing in Bariatric surgery at Health Point Hospital, a Mubadala health care facility, warned people who want to lose weight against relying on fast diets and tips promoted by celebrities on social networking sites. Dr. Mohammed Al Haddad, head of the Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Centre at Healthpoint stated that many …

Video game addiction could be made an official disease after it was officially recognised and classified by the World Health Organisation (WHO). The disorder has been suggested by some medics as a distinct behavioural addiction characterised by excessive or compulsive use of computer games or video games that affects an …