Right food choices add 
to Ramadan blessings

DUBAI — With nearly a week on since the beginning of Ramadan, dieticians are urging people to make eating healthy a lifelong habit. Besides being healing and therapeutic, fasting also reverses the ageing process if practised correctly, say the experts.

UAE lifeline for Hepatitis, tuberculosis job aspirants

DUBAI — Hepatitis and tuberculosis are no longer deportable offences in the UAE except for a category of workers, according the new medical fitness testing rules published by the Dubai Health Authority on its website. However, implementation date of the new federal ruling is expected to be announced by the Ministry of Health soon.

UAE makes organ transplant easier

The law allows living people, mentally and physically fit and above the age of 21, to donate a life-sustaining organ that can be removed without endangering the donor.

UAE mulls mass production of disposable syringes

DUBAI — The UAE plans to start mass production of disposable syringes targeting 20 million people worldwide as world health chiefs call for cultural changes to promote the use of safe injections.

UAE among top 20 medical tourism destinations

DUBAI - The UAE is among the world’s top 20 destinations for medical tourism, according to a health tourism survey that has also revealed that the industry has yet to reach its full potential.