Middle East Health

By Marianne Khlat, Clinical psychologist and pediatric care case manager Marianne Khlat

School provides children with more than academic instruction. Daily routines, familiar classmates, and predictable schedules create a sense of stability that supports emotional wellbeing. When that structure is disrupted, whether by school holidays, ...

A landmark study drawing on nearly 2,000 surgical patients from the NIH’s All of Us Research Programme has quantified what clinicians have long suspected: postoperative step count, measured by a consumer wearable, is a robust, independent predictor of hospital length of stay, complications, and readmission. Published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons on 6 May 20...

A pre-visit questionnaire that patients complete from home, paired with automatic upload to the electronic health record and a same-day prompt for the family physician, increased new family history documentation roughly 94-fold compared with usual care, according to a matched-pair effectiveness-implementation trial published in the September/October 2025 issue of the Annals of F...

Carlo Nakhle Carlo Nakhle, Business Director – Havas Life Middle East, examines how Dubai and Saudi Arabia are embedding longevity science into regulated healthcare infrastructure, shifting the focus from lifespan extension to measurable gains in healthspan. Drawing on Havas’s Superaging research and recent policy developments, including Dubai’s Law No. 17 of 2026, he argues...

Informa has announced that the next edition of WHX Tech will be held from 27–29 January 2027 at the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), running concurrently with World Health Expo (WHX) as part of a newly formed World Healthcare Week.

The decision to align the two events with­in the same week marks a strategic con­solidation of two distinct but complemen­tary forums –...