World No Tobacco Day: Get ready for plain packaging
For this year's World No Tobacco Day, 31st of May, the World Health Organization is calling on countries to get ready for plain standardized...
MERS cases on the rise in Middle East
Health authorities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia announced a new death caused by the dangerous MERS virus. With the last laboratory-confirmed case of...
Battling Loneliness Suggestions
The more you learn about happiness, the more you will believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.
There is a...
New therapeutic treatment helps people lose more weight and keep it...
A new approach to weight loss called Acceptance-Based Behavioral Treatment (ABT) helped people lose more weight and keep it off longer than those who...
Brain Activity Is Inherited
Every person has a distinct pattern of functional brain connectivity known as a connectotype, or brain fingerprint. While individually unique, each connectotype demonstrates both...
Ebola Cases May Reach 1.4 Million by February
The Ebola outbreak in West Africa is gaining speed with hundreds of new infections each week, but recently the American CDC defined the worst-case...
Cash for Weight Loss
A new study, published in the journal Social Science and Medicine, has shown that selling rewards programmes to participants entering a weight loss programme...
How Men Can Deal With Anxiety
More and more, do you find yourself fighting feelings of worry? Do you feel increasingly anxious and tense? Do you obsess about things that...
Salty Diet Makes You Hungry, Not Thirsty
We've all heard it: eating salty foods makes you thirstier. But what sounds like good nutritional advice turns out to be not true in...
Hot Asphalt is a Major Source of Urban Air Pollution
Asphalt is a significant source of air pollutants in urban areas, especially on hot and sunny days, according to a new study.
Asphalt is a...
A Cure for People Who Worry Too Much
Chronic worriers, take note: Simply writing about your feelings may help you perform an upcoming stressful task more efficiently.
People who worry too much burn...
World’s 25 Healthiest Countries in 2017 Are Not All in Europe
The United Arab Emirates has ranked 43rd on Bloomberg's 2017 Healthiest Country Index.
Italy is the healthiest nation in the world, according to a ranking...
Khalifa Foundation grants Texas University $ 150 mn for cancer research
The Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Charity Foundation will offer a grant of US$ 150 million to the University of Texas, US, in support...
Biggest Medical Breakthroughs of 2013
The medical advancements which the world witnessed in 2013 were inspiring and promising. Some of the biggest medical breakthrough moments during the last one...
House Dust Contributes to Weight Gain
Poor diet and a lack of physical activity are major contributors to the world's obesity epidemic. In addition, now researchers have also identified common...
Coffee Naps: The New Way to Stay Alert
Mondays don’t have to be so horrible – scientists have come up with a better alternative to the coffee-doused mornings, coffee naps. What may...
Each year over two million children die of pneumonia, the forgotten...
Delegates from UAE arrive in UAE to discuss pneumococcal disease in the First Africa & Middle East Pneumococcal Congress
More than 200 world...
WHO announces school measures to reduce impact of pandemic H1N1 flu
WHO is today issuing advice on measures that can be undertaken in schools to reduce the impact of the H1N1 influenza pandemic.
Recommendations draw on...