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Excessive Smartphone Use Cause Sleep Deprivation in Teens

Excessive use of smartphones and tablets may be keeping teens awake a night, according to a study that found adolescents who spend more than...

Probiotic Use Linked to Brain Fogginess, Severe Bloating

Probiotic use can result in a significant accumulation of bacteria in the small intestine that can result in disorienting brain fogginess as well as...

World Cancer Day: The Biggest Cause of the Disease

Marked on February 4 each year, World Cancer Day is designed to raise awareness of cancer and to promote its prevention, detection, and treatment....

Counting Calories Doesn’t Help Weight Loss

It may sound strange to all who stick to their low-calories diets, but counting calories is actually a 19th century weight loss strategy. What’s...

Fears of Deadly Outbreaks Increase in Saudi Arabia

Two patients with possible Ebola symptoms are said to have escaped from a health center in the Madinah province of Saudi Arabia, according to...

Countries Begin Issuing Travel Bans over Ebola Scare

The World Health Organization, as well as other health experts, says travel or trade ban to any of the Ebola-affected countries in the current...

More people on Earth are now obese than are underweight

More people on Earth are obese than are underweight, with one in five predicted to be overweight by the year 2025, researchers in England...

Surviving Ebola Depends on Your Genes

Ebola is considered one of the deadliest diseases with approximately half of the infected people in the current West African outbreak dying from the...

Obesity and Diabetes Diseases Rise in UAE

An estimated 1 in 5 people in the UAE have Diabetes, 47.5% of UAE residents are overweight, with a BMI of between 25 and...

Weekend Bliss Exists for Both Employed and Unemployed, Study Finds

It is a well-known fact that working people love their weekends. That is mainly why when Friday strikes, social media websites become flooded by...

Wake up to Nocturia: Disrupted Sleep Damages Your Health

Nocturia is the frequent need to pass water during the night Nocturia is the most common cause of sleep disturbance Up to 80% of people who...

What Vitamins and Minerals You Need Daily

Vitamins & Minerals for Healthy Bodies In modern busy everyday life most people can’t afford to live and eat healthy which results in number of...

Free screening for Osteoporosisat Anlene’s ‘Walk for Bones’

Anlene, in partnership with MBC’s morning show, ‘Sabah Al Kheir Ya Arab’, is giving away hundreds of thousands of dirhams worth of bone...

Human Species Extinction Seem Increasingly Possible

Chemicals, diet, stress, and lifestyle choices have caused the sperm levels of Western men to plummet to less than 50 percent of what they...

Who Uses Complementary and Alternative Medicine and How

Help sought from complementary, alternative medicine to remedy health problems A new and extensive study has charted the use of complementary and alternative medicine in...

Neuroscientists Get at the Roots of Pessimism

Many patients with neuropsychiatric disorders such as anxiety or depression experience negative moods that lead them to focus on the possible downside of a...

Top 10 cellulite-busting foods

Eat your way to smoother skin Suffering from bumpy “orange peel” skin on your legs, bum or tum? You're not alone – cellulite affects...

Fake, Low-quality Medicines Prevalent in Developing World

A new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found that substandard and falsified medicines, including medicines to treat malaria, are...