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60 stories for“family health”
World Breastfeeding Week 2026 focuses on proven support, from skilled counselling and maternity leave to hospitals and workplaces designed around families.
Jul 31, 2026
For much of the Gulf's working population, the conflict is somewhere their family lives and they do not. The particular difficulty of that position is helplessness, and there are things that genuinely help with it.
Aug 13, 2026
The 2026 global food-security debate is shifting from calories alone to whether families can afford nutritious food. The consequences reach health, education and productivity.
Jul 31, 2026
A useful kit is small, current and findable. Dressings, a thermometer, tweezers, gloves and a few basic medicines cover most household accidents. The rest is knowing what to do, which a short course teaches better than any box.
Sep 19, 2026
Children absorb far more than parents realise, and silence does not protect them. What helps is honest, age-appropriate information, predictable routine, and adults who manage their own distress in front of them.
Aug 13, 2026
FDA approval of the first oral PCSK9 inhibitor adds a once-daily option for adults who need greater LDL reduction, but it does not replace individualized cardiovascular care.
Aug 1, 2026
Better prevention, faster access and digitally connected care show how Vision 2030 can translate national reform into a healthier daily future.
Jul 28, 2026
Two individualized antisense treatments reduced the effects of a rare SCN2A disorder. The results are hopeful, but they come from two carefully monitored patients, not a broad trial.
Aug 1, 2026
Fear, disrupted sleep, grief and irritability are common during conflict. Evidence-based support begins with safety and practical care, while recognizing when professional help is urgent.
Jul 25, 2026
A new 2026-2027 plan targets malnutrition, preventable blindness, heart care and essential treatment for nearly 50,000 people in Somalia.
Jul 29, 2026
A meta-analysis of seventy studies put the increased mortality risk from loneliness at 26 per cent and from living alone at 32 per cent. A WHO commission estimates 871,000 deaths a year. What the numbers mean, and what has been shown to help.
Aug 23, 2026
WHO reports sustained transmission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo while Uganda begins enhanced surveillance. Clear facts matter more than fear.
Jul 31, 2026
One in five people who live through conflict develops a mental health condition. Most of the useful advice is unglamorous: fix sleep, ration news, keep routine, and treat connection as a necessity rather than a nicety.
Aug 13, 2026
A UAE medical report found a natural death from sudden cardiac arrest. Egypt then exhumed the body for a second examination. Both of those facts are true, and neither cancels the other.
May 17, 2026
Falling asleep requires your core temperature to drop, which is difficult when the night does not cool. The fixes that work target body temperature rather than room temperature, and cost very little.
Aug 13, 2026
New dietary guidance sets a hard number for added sugar in a school meal. The harder problem is a box that comes home full, because a nutritious lunch that goes uneaten is not a lunch.
Aug 16, 2026
A natural death, an official report and an ordinary second autopsy were absorbed into a story about silencing. The mechanism behind that is predictable, and it is worth understanding.
Jul 8, 2026
He trained in intensive care, built an audience of millions, was struck off by his own syndicate, and died in a Dubai hotel room at 47. The arguments about him did not stop there.
May 10, 2026
New survey analysis points to greater climate-related health harm among disabled people, strengthening the case for accessible alerts, evacuation and cooling plans.
Jul 24, 2026
Type 1 and type 2 are the two everyone knows. LADA is regularly mistaken for type 2 in adults, and MODY is a single-gene condition that can sometimes be treated with a tablet instead of insulin. The label decides the therapy.
Jul 7, 2026
Stanford researchers borrowed the trick a consumer ancestry test uses and found immune cells migrating out of the blood and into the human brain from middle age onwards. Mice do not do it. Nor did the primates tested alongside them.
Aug 25, 2026
Social media platforms have become an essential aspect of our lives in today’s hyper-connected world. While they provide several benefits, it is critical to investigate their impact on mental health. This blog dives into social media’s hidden hazards and investigates the potentially detrimental consequences it can have on our psychological well-being. Social Media’s Allure Social
May 27, 2023
A new WHO discussion brings cognition and mental health into menopause care, where sleep, mood, symptoms and individual medical history all matter.
Jul 31, 2026
Diaa al-Awady died on 19 April. Egypt banned his content on 3 May. The system spread faster afterwards. What that reveals about religious vocabulary, distrust of doctors and the cost of a health panic is more useful than another round of the argument.
Aug 22, 2026
As fires force evacuations across France and Spain, fine particles can travel far beyond fire lines and worsen heart and lung disease after the immediate emergency fades.
Jul 25, 2026
A new incentive campaign asks Dubai residents to bring friends and family to the city, revealing how destinations compete when regional uncertainty weighs on travel.
Jul 24, 2026
Ajman government employees are working seven-hour summer days without reducing public-service expectations. The initiative offers a useful test of output, wellbeing and heat-aware work design.
Aug 1, 2026
Paramedics, firefighters and volunteer rescuers are dying in numbers that have no modern precedent. In Lebanon alone, 110 emergency workers were killed in a matter of months. This is what they do, and what it costs.
Aug 13, 2026
Threads is the new Meta platform, recently released and reaching over 100 million users within 5 days. The latest rival to Twitter has made a significant impact in the realm of social media. In addition to having many similar functionalities and a familiar user interface, Threads claimed
Sep 7, 2023
Technology has become an integral part of our lives, transforming the way we communicate, work, learn, and interact with the world. Its impact on society is profound and far-reaching, reshaping industries, economies, and even personal relationships. As technology continues to advance at an unprecedented pace, it is essential to examine the positive and negative effects
May 27, 2023
A health ministry does not issue a public warning about an eating plan for the sake of it. This one followed reports of people reaching intensive care after stopping insulin.
Jun 13, 2026
UNESCO-backed work across Pacific communities shows climate education becoming more useful when science is connected with local language, culture and lived knowledge.
Jul 24, 2026
A guided practice of lying still while systematically moving attention around the body. It has accumulated a real randomised trial literature for sleep, stress and anxiety, and a rebranded version has attracted claims that literature does not support.
Sep 4, 2026
Pregnancy is an accidental stress test of the pancreas, and gestational diabetes is a failed one. The glucose normalises after birth, the elevated lifetime risk does not, and the follow-up appointment that would catch it is missed constantly.
Jul 31, 2026
More than 500 species of vesper bat turn out to carry two separate sets of antibody heavy chain genes, where every other known mammal has one. The researchers are careful to say this does not fully explain why bats tolerate viruses.
Sep 4, 2026
Telling people to eat differently is one thing. Telling type 1 diabetics they can stop injecting is another, and it is the claim that brought regulators down on nizam al-tayyibat.
May 25, 2026
Estrogen-only therapy was associated with 39 per cent lower odds of dementia, and with fewer amyloid plaques and tau tangles in donated brains. It is observational, and the group that receives it is unusual.
Aug 22, 2026
New mortality data pinpoints how much weekly strength training lowers death risk, and shows more is not always better.
Apr 10, 2025
Ozempic, Mounjaro and the drug that has not arrived yet are not three versions of the same thing. They hit different receptors, produce different results, and suit different people.
Aug 11, 2026
The strongest legacy of global sport will be measured in active communities, local coaching, women’s participation and facilities people use every week.
Jul 28, 2026
Nausea is the least of it. Here is an honest look at GLP-1 side effects, the thyroid warning, pancreatitis and who is advised to avoid them.
Jul 10, 2024
Semaglutide now has a heart disease approval too. Here is what the STEP and SELECT trial data really says, and what it does not.
Mar 13, 2024
The label is contested, the thresholds differ between guidelines, and most people who have it never progress. It is also the one point in this whole condition where a trial showed you can change the outcome by more than half.
Jul 10, 2026
Diabetes distress is not depression and it is not a character weakness. It is the predictable response to a condition that never grants a day off, and it is one of the strongest predictors of how the numbers go.
Aug 18, 2026
Decades of trials back creatine for muscle and strength, and newer research is testing brain benefits, but the hype has outrun some of the data.
Aug 19, 2024
DAN is a name every diver knows, but membership and dive accident insurance are not the same thing. Here is what each one actually buys you.
Jun 30, 2025
A delayed mortality count reveals the June heatwave’s true scale, showing why the deadliest climate disaster can pass quietly behind ordinary causes of death.
Jul 23, 2026
Deliberate career breaks of a few months, taken repeatedly across a working life rather than saved until the end. The idea is sound, the finances are unforgiving, and the visa questions are the ones nobody checks first.
Aug 8, 2026
The test everyone treats as the verdict measures sugar stuck to haemoglobin over the life of a red cell. Anything that changes how long those cells live changes the result, and several of those conditions are common across this region.
Jul 13, 2026
Biohackers take metformin to slow aging, but the trial designed to actually prove that, TAME, still has not finished enrolling.
May 6, 2024
WHO’s new figures show real progress despite a billion more vehicles, while poorer countries and vulnerable road users remain on the wrong side of the decline.
Jul 22, 2026
Diabetes care is organised around bringing numbers down, which makes it easy to forget that the acute danger points the other way. The ADA defines three levels of hypoglycaemia, and the third one requires another person.
Aug 6, 2026
WMO forecasts point to a rapidly strengthening El Niño, raising the odds of disruptive heat, drought and heavy rain. Preparedness now can reduce damage later.
Jul 31, 2026
A decade after its launch, Vision 2030 is moving from rapid transformation toward durable delivery, stronger institutions and opportunities that reach everyday life.
Jul 28, 2026
Scuba has real hazards, but recreational diving within training and conditions is a managed-risk activity, not the extreme gamble suggested by rare accident headlines.
Jul 25, 2026
Lilly does not expect to file for approval until the first quarter of 2027. Search the drug's name today and you can have a vial by the weekend. The gap between those two facts is where the harm happens.
Aug 20, 2026
GLP-1 receptor agonists did not start as weight loss drugs. Here is the biology behind Ozempic, Mounjaro and the hormone they mimic.
Jan 25, 2024
A pooled analysis of 51 cohort studies spanning up to 32 years of follow-up found higher ultra-processed food intake linked to greater risk of cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, depression and death, with digestive disease risk up 31 per cent.
Sep 27, 2026
The fourth global coral bleaching event hit 84 percent of the world's reefs. Here is what that means underwater, and what responsible diving looks like now.
Jun 18, 2026
Parks, walking routes, sports spaces and connected neighborhoods may become Vision 2030’s most meaningful contribution to daily life in the capital.
Jul 28, 2026
