Our Head of Oncology, Ashraf Abdelghany has participated in HSP’s 2017 Health Security Futures Fellowship program. In this article he explains about the importance of science and healthy diplomacy in Egypt and across the Middle East.
Read moreDr Sora Al Rowas debunks some common mental health myths and she makes a strong case for why primary care providers need to take mental health seriously.
Adjuvant endocrine therapy remains a cornerstone of systemic therapy for hormone receptor-positive breast cancer. Dr Joyce Habib explains how there has been shift in the choice and duration of adjuvant endocrine therapy in pre and postmenopausal patients.
Anyone entering the UAE now needs pre-approval to bring personal medicines with them and the new legislation is especially strict on narcotic drugs, controlled, and semi-controlled drugs. Read our news update for further details.
Her Excellency Dr Maryam Matar, MD, PhD, explains how peak performance is linked to epigenetics and enough scientific evidence is available to suggest that sleep, exercise, nutrition, and meditation impact on peak performance and health.
Obesity is defined as an excessive accumulation of body fat that causes health problems. Current data indicate that the incidence of obesity has increased to epidemic proportions in the last 40 years.
Dr Khaled discusses the advances in the diagnosis and management of gout; the novel urate-lowering therapies, new imaging modalities, and a deeper understanding of the pathogenesis of gout raise the possibility of better gout care and improved patient outcomes and adequate lowering of serum uric acid with minimal effects on renal tissues.
MERS-CoV was first isolated in the Arabic Peninsula, Maryam Kotb discusses whether it remains a global threat.
Dr. Asawari Bapat provides an in-depth article on regenerative medicine highlighting the opportunities for the Middle East. Regeneration considers the delivery of specific types of cells or cell products to the diseased tissues or organs, where they will ultimately restore the tissue and organ function. All this is done through cell-based therapy or by using cell products, such as growth factors.
