We’ve all read — and tried to ignore — the headline-grabbing surveys laden with worryingly dismal outlooks for our health. The most recent tranche of bad news suggested the UAE has one of the highest rates of both cardiovascular disease and diabetes in the world. Half of heart attack patients here are under 50. As Dr Asma Deeb, the president of the International Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes, pointedly warned at a conference in...
If you’ve strolled through Mall of The Emirates in Dubai in the last six months, a shiny new store just across from Harvey Nichols may have caught your eye. Looking like a cross between an art gallery and an Apple Store, there’s just one product for sale inside. The fact that it’s an electric car says everything about the status of — and excitement surrounding — electric vehicles in the UAE as we enter 2023. ...
Dr Ruqqia Mir, a consultant at the groundbreaking Abu Dhabi Stem Cells Center, is excited. We’re speaking to her just days after its doctors performed the UAE’s first successful bone marrow transplant on a patient with Multiple Sclerosis – with immediate improvements in her condition. “She did really well,” she beams. “We are an innovation and research-driven facility but we’re committed to helping patients heal today — as well as tomorrow and for years to...
If, at the start of 2022, you’d been asked to predict the author who would dominate worldwide bestseller lists, it’s unlikely you’d have immediately directed people towards a 42-year-old Texan with a string of well-thumbed, if unremarkable, romantic thrillers, comedies, ghost stories and the odd excursion into YA. And yet. At the time of writing Colleen Hoover has, amid the usual John Grishams, Stephen Kings and Lee Childs, four of the top 10 New York...
The UAE is getting ready for a genuine moment in its history and journey of the UAE, and it will arrive in a flash of heat, light and noise. Floridian weather and launch conditions permitting, the incredible 1.7 million pound thrust of Falcon 9’s reusable rocket will power the first Emirates Lunar Mission on its four-month journey to the Moon. And when the Rashid Rover tentatively leaves its lander in March, making the first Emirati...
Increasingly, the program at Dubai’s Emirates Airline Festival of Literature is tapping into the power books have to encourage positive change in our wellbeing, eating habits and general attitude to life. Indeed, this year’s theme, Here comes the sun, is in many ways a reflection of such optimism — and over two weekends in February in the festival’s new surroundings at the Habtoor City Hotels, its psychology, wellness and food strands offer a wide range...