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Cookies. Pizza. Cake. All are delicious but can also contain a toxic ingredient that kills almost 300,000 people from coronary heart disease each year: industrially produced trans fat.

The battle to get rid of trans fats...forever

A hidden killer in the global food supply

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Tom Frieden 15 July 2024

In an interview with Al Majalla, the regional director at the World Health Organization, Dr Hanan Balkhy, lays out the challenges she faces in her new role and shares her recipe for success

WHO Regional Director Hanan Balkhy: We are delivering critical medical supplies and fuel to keep Gaza's hospitals running

In an interview with Al Majalla, the regional director at the World Health Organization lays out the challenges she faces in her new role and shares her recipe for success

Ahmed Maher 26 February 2024

Vegetarian Diet Linked To More Hip Fractures in Women

Women who eat a vegetarian diet have significantly higher risks of suffering a hip fracture compared with peers who eat meat (including poultry) even occasionally, a new study suggests. The study,…

Maureen Salamon 28 November 2022

Majalla’s Year in Review

The year 2021 has been full of political events ranging between Arab reconciliation, the war on Gaza, the delay of the long-awaited Libyan elections, the power outages and economic crisis in Lebanon,…

Majalla 31 December 2021

A COVID-19 particle is pictured in this image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (CDC/TNS)

Is The Mu Variant More Dangerous Than Delta?

The highly infectious delta variant has sparked a new wave of COVID-19 cases and deaths worldwide in recent months, hampering reopenings and slowing the economic recovery. Now comes word of a new…

Sam Fazeli 18 September 2021

Nutrition labels are seen on food packaging on February 27, 2014 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/TNS)

Nutrition Science Moves On

Do you ever feel like figuring out what to eat is harder than doing your own taxes? If so, you may be among the health-conscious Americans who actually noticed that the Food and Drug Administration…

Richard Williams 28 August 2021

A lab technician uses a single channel pipette dropper to test material during Covid-19 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test processing at a laboratory in the Dunkeld suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, on Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. (Getty)

A System Failure

Shared transnational challenges are supposed to bring the world together. The Covid-19 pandemic, however, has done the opposite, exposing the shortcomings of the structures that govern global health…

Ashish Jha 26 February 2021

Do You Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day for Better Health?

If you've invested in a fitness tracker, chances are you've heard that you should take 10,000 steps a day for better health. If that sounds daunting, there's good news: a study published onlineMay…

Harvard Men's Health Watch 08 November 2019

Endangering Animals Is Hazardous to Your Health

In recent years, the illicit wildlife trade has expanded to unmatched proportions. The traffic in animal parts gravely threatens global biodiversity and entire ecosystems. Those who partake in it…

Vanda Felbab-Brown 05 November 2018

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In Part 1 of a two-part interview with Al Majalla, Syria's foreign minister explains how the Assad regime fell and how President Ahmed al-Sharaa went from a wanted man to a world leader

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50 years on, 'Grendizer' still stirs Arab hearts

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