| Take charge of your health: DHA | | Obesity, smoking, diabetes and lack of physical activity have been identified as the main priorities that Dubai residents need to tackle head-on for their health, said a senior official of the Dubai Health Authority. | | DHA’s strategy will promote Dubai as health tourism hub | | His Highness Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, was briefed on Sunday on the four-pronged strategy of the Dubai Health Authority (DHA), which builds on Shaikh Mohammed’s long-term sustainable development vision for promoting Dubai as a favourite destination for health tourism in the Gulf, Middle East and world. | | Sea change in surgery | | Treating breast cancer almost always involves surgery, and for years the choice was just having the lump or the whole breast removed. | | Men too at risk for osteoporosis | | Osteoporosis is still considered a disease of older white women, but it is clear that both sexes and all ethnic groups have some risk for fracture, explains Dr Adnan Abdulwahid, Rheumatologist, Zulekha Hospital, Sharjah. | | Coronavirus: WHO in touch with UAE | | The World Health Organisation (WHO) is in talks with the UAE authorities to trace the path of the deadly coronavirus after a 65-year-old patient was hospitalised in Paris with the Sars-like virus after a visit to Dubai last month. A second person who shared the room with the elderly patient was also diagnosed with the disease. | | Breast cancer: Taking no chances | | With breast cancer claiming the lives of hundreds of thousands of women annually, many are choosing to remove their breasts before diagnosis, but is this a drastic alternative?
Kelly Clarke talks to women who have undergone prophylactic mastectomies | |
