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60 stories for“public health”
Updated traveler attention around Ebola-affected areas underscores a basic rule: monitor official advice, know the symptoms and seek help without stigmatizing whole countries.
Jul 24, 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
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
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
Doctors and followers spent a year disagreeing about nizam al-tayyibat without ever contradicting each other, because they were not answering the same question.
Jul 24, 2026
The only licensed Ebola vaccine was made for Zaire ebolavirus. The outbreak killing people in eastern Congo is Bundibugyo. Vaccination began this week anyway, with 20,000 of the 70,000 doses formally designated as a trial.
Aug 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
IDF figures put UAE adult prevalence at 20.7 per cent and Saudi Arabia at 23.1 per cent, against a global figure around a tenth. The explanation is not one thing, and one of the contributing factors is barely three generations old.
Jul 16, 2026
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
WHO is urging countries to connect hepatitis, HIV and STI services around the people who use them, replacing fragmented pathways with earlier testing and care.
Jul 28, 2026
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
WHO says the risk remains low for most people as cases rise in parts of Europe, but bite prevention and awareness of severe symptoms matter.
Jul 31, 2026
Retatrutide just posted phase 3 weight loss data hitting three hormone receptors at once. Here is what is confirmed and what remains unproven.
May 27, 2026
Semaglutide and tirzepatide went from diabetes treatment to celebrity shortcut to a genuine health story. What happens when one drug becomes a cultural moment.
Apr 20, 2024
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 guidance targets a threat the agency calls one of the most neglected in global health. The problem is not just the infections, it is how few drugs exist to treat them.
Aug 4, 2026
Two large pooled analyses now agree: the drop in mortality with more walking is steep up to about seven thousand steps a day and shallow after that. What the studies found, what they could not show, and what to do with a phone that counts.
Sep 6, 2026
An engineered gum reduced HPV and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. It is early work, and the delivery method is the genuinely clever part.
Aug 6, 2026
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
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
A new 2026-2027 plan targets malnutrition, preventable blindness, heart care and essential treatment for nearly 50,000 people in Somalia.
Jul 29, 2026
New research on mindful technology use reframes burnout as a work-design problem involving notifications, norms and control, not just an employee resilience problem.
Jul 24, 2026
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
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
Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro are all prescribable in the UAE, but shortages and insurance gaps shape who can actually get them.
Mar 10, 2025
Oral immunotherapy raises the dose a patient can tolerate before a reaction starts. That protects against accidents, which is not the same as being able to eat the food.
Jul 29, 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
Shortages pushed patients toward compounded semaglutide. The FDA's latest alert shows why that workaround carries real risk.
Aug 5, 2024
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
Tirzepatide just beat semaglutide head to head in a major trial. Here is what SURMOUNT and SURPASS data actually shows about hitting two receptors.
Dec 9, 2024
TRIUMPH-2 and TRIUMPH-3 read out in July, following TRIUMPH-1 in May. Across the programme the triple agonist has produced weight loss in a range no approved obesity drug has reached, with a filing due in early 2027.
Aug 11, 2026
Meta-analyses now put exercise's effect on depression in the same range as antidepressant trials, with real implications for regions like the Gulf.
Apr 14, 2026
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
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
