Depression isn’t one condition. For most people, it responds reasonably well to antidepressant medications and therapy — with time, patience, and the right clinical guidance. But for a significant number of patients, two or more treatments fail to deliver meaningful improvement. That’s what psychiatrists call treatment-resistant depression, or TRD. If you’ve been managing depression for […]
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Peptide therapy has moved from niche biohacking circles to mainstream clinical medicine faster than most health trends. In Dubai, it’s now one of the most searched topics in private healthcare — and with good reason. But the conversation around peptides is also noisy. GLP-1s, BPC-157, semaglutide, tirzapatide, CJC-1295 — it can sound like alphabet soup […]
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You’ve probably heard the phrase ‘age is just a number.’ Turns out, that’s actually true — in a very specific, measurable, clinical way. Your chronological age is how many years you’ve been alive. Your biological age is how old your body is actually functioning. They’re often different. Sometimes by a decade or more in either […]
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Most people in Dubai know their blood pressure, maybe their cholesterol. But ask them what their genes say about their cardiovascular risk, their metabolism, or how their body actually processes the food they eat — and there’s usually a blank stare. That’s changing fast. A DNA health test in Dubai is no longer something only […]
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By Dr. Ali Aldibbiat — MD, PhD, FRCP (London & Edinburgh), FACE. Consultant Endocrinologist, Newcastle Vitality Clinic, Jumeirah, Dubai. Most executive health packages measure what is cheap and traditional rather than what is predictive. You receive a folder of results, most of them normal, and no plan. A year later you do it again. This […]
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الأمريكية لعلم الغدد الصماء. عيادة نيوكاسل فيتاليتي، الجميرا، دبي. رجل في الأربعينات يشعر بالتعب، وفتر حماسه، وتوقف تقدمه في النادي، وقلّت رغبته. يطلب تحليل تستوستيرون عبر الإنترنت، ويسحب العينة الساعة الرابعة عصراً، وتأتي النتيجة في الحد الأدنى من المعدل. وخلال أسبوع يبدأ العلاج الهرموني. كل خطوة في هذا التسلسل تقريباً خاطئة — وقد تكون النتيجة […]
Learn MoreBy Dr. Ali Aldibbiat — MD, PhD, FRCP (London & Edinburgh), FACE. Consultant Endocrinologist, Newcastle Vitality Clinic, Jumeirah, Dubai. A man in his forties is tired, his motivation has flattened, his gym progress has stalled and his libido has faded. He orders a testosterone test online, gives a blood sample at four in the afternoon, […]
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الأمريكية لعلم الغدد الصماء. عيادة نيوكاسل فيتاليتي، الجميرا، دبي. في العاشر من نوفمبر ٢٠٢٥، بدأت إدارة الغذاء والدواء الأمريكية بسحب «التحذير المؤطّر» — أشد تحذير يمكن أن يحمله دواء — من منتجات العلاج الهرموني لسن اليأس. لعشرين عاماً شكّل ذلك التحذير طريقة تفكير النساء وأطبائهن في هذا العلاج. وقد قُرئ القرار في الإعلام على أنه […]
Learn MoreBy Dr. Ali Aldibbiat — MD, PhD, FRCP (London & Edinburgh), FACE. Consultant Endocrinologist, Newcastle Vitality Clinic, Jumeirah, Dubai. On 10 November 2025, the US Food and Drug Administration began removing the black box warning — the most serious warning a medicine can carry — from menopausal hormone therapy products. For twenty years that warning […]
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Two years ago, the conversation about weight loss medication in Dubai was short: there were two injections and one old tablet. That is no longer true. There are now seven licensed options in the UAE, working through four different mechanisms, in injectable and tablet form, at very different price points and with very different safety […]
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