Diabetes has been becoming a common health disorder among UAE nationals as the country finds place in the list of 10 countries where the disease has been spreading at very fast pace.

Residents of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are very prone to the disease. A population of 51.7 million may suffer from diabetes by 2023 according to experts speaking at the two days long 1st International Abu Dhabi Diabetes Congress.

The Sheikha Salama bint Hamadan al-Nahyan Foundation and the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation has decided to join hands for establishing new healthy school projects in Abu Dhabi for the overall development of children and to mitigate the rising problem of obesity in the school going children.

Consuming alcoholic beverages might lead to increased chances of getting prostate cancer, Lionel L. Bañez, MD, at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N. C. and colleagues stated post research.

It was stated that among men there was a 2.46 times more chances of getting prostate cancer if they had three drinks regularly every week.

About 334 men undergoing prostate biopsy at Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center from 2007 to 2009 were enrolled for a study.

There have been several findings that state cutting down on coffee is good for health but a recent research states that doing the other way round will lead to decreasing risks of being hospitalized for heart rhythm disturbances.

According to the US researchers consuming about four or more cups of coffee per day reduced the risk of being hospitalized for disturbances to their heart rhythm by 18 per cent lower risk of being hospitalised, and people who had one to three cups had a 7 per cent reduced risk.

According to a report presented at the American Heart Association's Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention, excessive coffee-drinking does not add much to the risk of Arrhythmia.

The report was led by Dr. Arthur Klatsky, a Senior Consultant in Cardiology at Kaiser Permanente Division of Research in Oakland, Calif.

He found that all those patients who took coffee not less than four times a day, were just 18% less prone to a disturbed heart pulse than those who did not take coffee at all.

The World Bank and other agencies on Sunday suggested that now India needs to scale up prevention of HIV if it wants to avoid the increasing spending form its health budget on treatment of AIDS patients. New Delhi is revealed to spend about 5 percent of its $5.4 billion healthcare budget on treating AIDS patients.

HIV cases showing signs have reached an alarming figure in New Delhi, in the financial hub of Mumbai, in the north and the northeast, the cost of treatment in India could jump to $1.8 billion by 2020, about 7 percent of the total health expenditure.

The Food Standards Agency, which was working to display nutritional information on food since 2004, announced that now it would not be asking all the manufacturers to use a simple green, amber and red traffic light system to indicate levels of fat, salt and sugar.

The FSA is reported to issue a strong recommendation in 2006 that all processed food should stick to the traffic light system to combat obesity. However, the Government disapproved.