UUAE Healthy Future Study

A closer look at the UAE Healthy Future Study

We all hear about the risks and high rates of cardiovascular disease, diabetes and stroke in the Emirates – but what can be done about it?  A team that has grown to 30 researchers at New York University Abu Dhabi have been hard at work answering that question, working on a groundbreaking scientific effort focused on Emirati health. The UAE Healthy Future Study aims to determine how genetics, environment and living patterns of Emiratis contribute to chronic

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clinical trials

How drug trials actually work

At a time when the entire world is undergoing the largest vaccination program ever rolled out by modern medicine, it has never been more important to understand how drug trials actually work. In general, trials of new drugs or treatments boil down to a simple analysis of risk versus benefit — do the benefits of taking a certain drug outweigh the risks? Finding out is a methodical business, which goes something like this. Before any

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Breast Cancer Awareness

New research looking at breast cancer in Emirati women

Emirati breast cancer patients appear to be a decade younger than the Western population and present with a later stage of disease, according to the lead investigator of three studies underway at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. Speaking to LiveHealthy recently, Dr Stephen R. Grobmyer, chair of the Oncology Institute at Cleveland Clinic, part of Mubadala Health, said doctors here have noticed a pattern among women – and suspect a genetic mutation.  “Emirati women are getting

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healthy eating Covid

How a healthy diet can lower your risk of serious Covid

You are what you eat, and according to a large new Harvard study, that extends to bolstering your protection against Covid-19 infection, too.   The study involving more than half a million Americans found that you can boost your immune system and significantly lower your risk of getting seriously ill from Covid-19 by eating a plant-rich diet.  The study, which was conducted by Massachusetts General Hospital via smartphone survey, found that of more than 590,000

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Wael Al Awar Curator of Wetland for NPUAE_Photo by Andrea Avezzu_Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia

UAE wins Venice Biennale prize for sustainable cement alternative

The National Pavilion UAE has earned a top architecture prize in Venice for a “bold experiment” that uses a byproduct of desalination to change the way one of the world’s most energy-intensive compounds is made. When the Biennale Architecture 2021 jury awarded the Golden Lion Award to Wetland out of 60 pavilions vying for the prize, the panel’s president, Kazuyo Sejima, a Pritzker prize laureate, called it “a bold experiment that encourages us to think about the relationship

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