Asma Ali Zain

DUBAI - The achievements of a hundred top Pakistanis from a population of over 750,000 in the UAE are being listed in a book.

DUBAI - A suggestive approach can motivate school-children to lose weight healthily, according to an expert. Dr Maneesha Phadke, nutrition and fitness consultant based in Sharjah, earlier this year helped 235 students and 35 staff members of a Dubai-based school shed some weight which was also showcased at the Arab Children's Health Congress in March this year.

DUBAI - Health centres across the country may soon be performing iris scans of those undergoing the mandatory medical fitness tests.

DUBAI - Junk SMS-weary customers in the UAE have no choice but to bear the menace of unwanted promotional material on their cell phones.

SHARJAH — Bus commuters in Sharjah are having to bear the intense heat as the air-conditioning system in the buses were not effective during the peak summer time.

DUBAI — The Middle East and South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) need more centres to perform corrective surgeries on at least 10-20 per cent of the 700,000 children born with congenital heart disease (CHD), according to an expert.

The time is right for the UAE to make forays into the fledgling global medical tourism industry as experts say that the country has an edge over 'perception of destination' as compared to other countries.

DUBAI — All tobacco products will carry a mix of strong pictorial warnings from February 2009 before hitting the market in the UAE, according to a senior health official.

Pakistani airline AirBlue would launch its service from Sharjah International Airport to the northern cities of Pakistan on August 14, the airline announced yesterday.

Fresh customers seeking etisalat mobile phone connections are being given numbers with the prefix "056" as the service provider has almost exhausted the limit of prefix "050" allotted to it by the UAE Telecom Regulatory Authority (TRA).

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