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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
CME Importance in UAE Healthcare Industry
CME Plays Vital Role in Achieving the Target of UAE Healthcare As per US based healthcare experts, high quality continuing medical education (CME) will play a major role in improving the healthcare industry and thus helping to reach the target which UAE has for 2021. According to them CME will help physicians to improve their […]
Why do Women have Longer Lifespans Than Men?
A lot of people might not be aware of the fact that women always tend to live longer than men and that is true for the all the countries. The world average is 73.5 for females and 68.5 for males. With a population of 9.5 million people, the life expectancy for UAE is 78.6 and […]
Infection Prevention – 2017’s Upcoming Conference in UAE
Infection Prevention and Control Symposium Infection control is a vast and broad subject and it is relevant to all countries in the world. In 2011 a total of 721,800 suffered due to infection in US Hospitals which is a huge number. The same year England also saw 300,000 to be infected. But Infection can be […]