Middle East Health

By Dr Nafisah AlFaris, Director of the Oncology Centre at Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare

Dr Nafisah AlFaris, Director of the Oncology Centre at Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare

In oncology, I often think about patients who knew about screening but did not get the chance to act in time. They understood that a mammogram or a colonoscopy co...

Researchers have pooled diffusion MRI data from more than 54,000 people across 19 international datasets to produce the most comprehensive normative model of the brain’s white matter ever created. Published in Nature Communications on 27 May 2026, the work establishes lifespan centile curves for key measures of brain microstructure – offering clinicians and trialists a sensitive...

Ismail Ibrahim Ismail Ibrahim, General Manager, CEMEA at SUSE, examines how “shadow AI” is taking hold across UAE and Saudi hospitals, as clinicians and researchers bypass sanctioned IT channels under pressure of GPU shortages and procurement delays. He analyses the governance an...

A new sector-wide index and a fast-approaching regulatory deadline, are putting a number on whether UAE clinics can be found and understood by the AI assistants patients are already using. Dr Andrey Perfilyev, CEO and co-founder, Yma Health, looks at the issue and provides some solutions. Andrey Perfilyev

A growing share of patients no longer b...

A pilot study published in Pediatrics Open Science suggests that showing short educational videos to first-time fathers in the hospital newborn nursery – a setting that uniquely captures paternal presence – can meaningfully improve knowledge of safe sleep, infant crying, and car safety. The findings point to an underused clinical window with real implications for infant injury p...