Vitamin D Deficiency Higher in Immigrants to European Countries
Most Affected by Vitamin D Risk factors for vitamin D deficiency among migrants include dark-skin pigmentation, cultural practices such as veiling and insufficient sunlight exposure in the host country. It’s common among dark-skinned individuals who migrate to high- northern or low southern latitudes. Study Found Somali Migrants Suffers the Most Dr. Pawel Pludowski, The Children’s […]
Vitamin D Deficiency Management in Adults Through Pharmaceutical Care
The role of vitamin D in calcium homeostasis has been appreciated since 1921. However, the interest in vitamin D has been on the increase recently after the association of vitamin D with non-skeletal diseases as well and its potential role in the prevention of auto-immune disease, cancer, mental health problems and cardiovascular disease. Despite the […]
Vitamin D Deficiency – A Public Health Issue in Asian Populations
Human body is designed by nature that it requires a myriad of nutrients to meet its physiological needs for optimal functioning. Diet provides most of these nutrients however, fat soluble vitamin D, generally classified as a steroid hormone and is unique for being sourced from sunlight exposure. Dr. Saeed Akhtar, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Pakistan, said […]
An Evidence Based Review On Vitamin D’s Role in Respiratory Diseases
Vitamin D is one of the most widely studied vitamins in last ten years. Researchers in the field continue to get more data worldwide on its role in the regulation of various biological bodily functions which is mostly observational at present and the quality of evidence is moderate in view of the predominately small trials. […]
6th International Vitamin D Conference in Abu Dhabi
New Updates on Vitamin D The two-day “6th International Conference on Vitamin D Deficiency – Nutrition and Human Health” was held on the 9th and 10th of March 2017 at Intercontinental Hotels & Resorts, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. This year the conference focused on Vitamin D Deficiency – Nutrition and Human Health. The event […]
How Minimally Invasive Surgeries Are Becoming Popular?
Now a days we walk in and out of the operation theatre just like we walk into a movie theatre. Though this might sound a bit exaggerated it is not far from becoming a reality. Walking into the hospital, getting a surgery done and walking out of the hospital on the same day is the […]
Health Problems of Carrying Heavy School Bags
They say that there is no more childhood even in children. And we cannot argue otherwise because we are to be blamed for that. When they should be playing and learning and enjoying, we have overburdened them with the school bag. No, I am not against their education but the sheer weight they carry everyday […]
Medical Tourism in UAE
UAE is becoming a popular destination for medical tourism. With a target of half a million international medical tourists by 2020 UAE is aiming high. The same number of medical tourists are also expected from within, in total the number is 1 Million which is high, considering the population of UAE which is 9.5 million. […]
Overwork and Stress Can Lead to Many Complications
Hamid is a 37 year old man. He works in a well known MNC. He has a family: mother, wife and two children. He is a hard-working man. He works overtime so that he can send his children to the best of schools and provide state of the art education. He is also happy that […]
5 Common Health Myths
Myth Breaker 2: Common Myths about Health In our Myth breaker series here goes the second article about some common myths about health. Since our childhood we have been keeping some common beliefs about our health and often we don’t go back and check if they are scientific or not, if there are any logic […]