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As the UAE becomes only the second country to approve the medication, experts explain why sustainable weight loss involves far more than simply replacing injections with a daily pill For years, the global narrative surrounding next-generation weight-loss medications has been visually defined by the click of an injection pen. We have watched from afar as Hollywood and social media feeds turned a class of chronic disease medications into the ultimate cultural status symbol. But this week, the UAE entered a new chapter in the rapid weight-loss conversation. In a decisive move, the Emirates Drug Establishment approved Wegovy (oral semaglutide)…

ReutersIn recent weeks, Canada became the first G7 country to approve a generic version of the popular drug Ozempic.Elizabeth Doran has been taking GLP-1 medications for nearly a year for weight loss to help reverse her prediabetes and high blood pressure. Because she had not yet developed diabetes, the retired 69-year-old was prescribed Wegovy for weight loss rather than its sister drug, Ozempic – both of which contain the active ingredient semaglutide.”I was one decimal point away from being diabetic,” Doran, who lives in Ottawa, Canada, told the BBC.Her Wegovy prescription meant she was not eligible for insurance drug coverage…

This July, a team of 15 riders will embark on the ‘Cycle Against Cancer’ challenge across Europe, raising funds and awareness for cancer patients through Al Jalila Foundation A healthy man wants a thousand things, a sick man only wants one. It’s a timeless truth from Stoic philosophy, but for long-time Dubai resident Guido De Wilde, it is a lived reality. When you are moving at the breakneck speed of a high-flying corporate life, your mind is naturally consumed by a tapestry of ambitions and endless pursuits. But when a doctor looks you in the eye and delivers a…

The war may redraw alliances and shift balances of power, but geography, Palestine and political identity will endure.In every major Middle Eastern war, the same illusion returns: the belief that bombs can rewrite history. The US-Israel war on Iran is rapidly and forcefully redrawing the map of the Middle East in ways previously unseen. Yet there are enduring realities that wars and bombs, no matter how precise, cannot erase or alter.Experts and analysts have not stopped predicting what the region will look like once the fighting ends. Some insist that this war will reshape the Middle East, topple regional axes…

Mladenov’s plan turns rebuilding from a humanitarian obligation into a weapon of political control.For months, Gaza has all but vanished into a diplomatic black hole. While the enclave has endured unprecedented destruction, mass displacement and institutional collapse, the political initiatives supposedly designed to address the catastrophe have remained paralysed.Then in late May, Nickolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace’s high representative for Gaza and a former United Nations Middle East envoy, returned with a 15-point framework, presented as a roadmap to stability, governance and reconstruction. But beneath the bureaucratic language and carefully staged sequencing lies a starkly different reality: The plan…

Getty ImagesChinese spies are posing as recruitment agents to trick UK government and military staff into disclosing state secrets, MI5 has warned.In a joint warning issued in a bulletin by the Five Eyes alliance, made up of UK, US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand agencies, it warned undercover operatives are using legitimate sites including LinkedIn, Indeed and Upwork to advertise fake analyst jobs.Applicants are then pressured into revealing “non-public” information which can be used by the Chinese military intelligence service.Five Eyes warns China’s spies “seek to acquire privileged military, political and economic intelligence that can provide China with a strategic…

ReutersLarvae of the screwworm fly collected from infected cowsA flesh-eating parasite that feeds on warm-blooded animals has been detected in the US for the first time since 1966.New World Screwworm (NWS) has been advancing across Mexico for the past year and has now been found in a calf in Texas, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said on Wednesday evening.Efforts to delay the arrival of screwworm in the US have been under way since cases began increasing in Central America and Mexico.The case was confirmed in the town of La Pryor, Texas, approximately 30 miles (48km) from the southern US-Mexico…

The video shows the attack caused a part of the terminal’s roof to collapse, leading to passengers running for cover amid smoke and dust[Editor’s Note: Follow the media live blog for the latest regional developments with the US-Israel-Iran ceasefire now in effect.]The newly renovated Kuwait International Airport was severely damaged in Iranian attacks on Wednesday, which led to the death of one person and left at least 63 people injured.Kuwait’s General Civil Aviation Authority now released footage of the moment a drone hit passenger Terminal 4 of the airport, causing a massive fire to break out.The video compiles footage from multiple CCTV…

Watch: What CCTV tells us about how Henry Nowak’s murder unfoldedHenry Nowak repeatedly told officers he had been stabbed, but he was handcuffed by police after his killer Vickrum Digwa falsely claimed he had been racially abused.The 18-year-old was just a few months into his first year at university when he was killed on his way home to his accommodation in Southampton on 3 December. Digwa has been jailed for life with a minimum of 21 years for the murder.This is what we know of how the night unfolded, including what we learned from CCTV and bodycam footage, a transcript…

BBCI vividly remember the moment my hair began to fall out.I was kneeling over a bath, washing it in a hotel room one Saturday evening, getting ready for my friend’s 40th birthday celebration. Seventeen days earlier, I’d had the first of six chemotherapy sessions to treat my breast cancer, but days had gone by with no hair loss.I’d convinced myself I might be one of the lucky ones.But as I held the shower over my head, suddenly the stream of water turned dark, as long strands of brown hair began coalescing around the plug hole in front of my eyes.…