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Educating students on lifestyle matters

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It is important for medical students to understand how to treat patients with noncommunicable diseases including how to provide counselling and treatment with regards lifestyle choices

Noncommunicable diseases and lifestyle choices Currently, when we talk about the main causes of morbidity and mortality in the world, we are referring to noncommunicable diseases. Among them, cardiovascular, respiratory, and metabolic diseases stand out, accounting for more than half of the deaths worldwide as reported by the World Health Organization (WHO, 2021). The prevention and treatment for these diseases, […]

Halalopathy: Integrating mind, behaviour and health

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Dr Alzeer believes that the principles of halalopathy will allow the right treatment to be matched to the right patient, allowing for a more effective therapy.

With the current focus on personalised medicine, some physicians are searching for new ways to treat the patient as an individual. Dr Jawad Alzeer of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, proposes a novel approach to medicine: halalopathy. Under halalopathy, mind, behaviour and health are fundamentally connected. By prioritising the relationships between these three aspects of a person, Dr Alzeer believes […]