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Your baby is Thumb-sucking

Muscat - Arab Today

Up to one third of children suck their thumb or fingers in the first year of life. Babies have a natural urge to suck on their fingers, hands, lips or items such as pacifiers to soothe themselves when they feel hungry, afraid, restless, quiet, sleepy, or bored. It can start before birth, and can be a deeply ingrained habit. However,Read more

Palace allays fears over Duterte’s health condition

Manila - Arab Today

The presidential palace allayed anew fears over President Rodrigo Duterte’s health condition after the latter admitted during a recent forum about difficulties. “It’s nothing serious,” Ernesto Abella, the president’s spokesman said on Tuesday after President Duterte on Monday admitted during a forum that a medical condition concerning his spine had been troubling him. The president said the pain he hadRead more

Shah Rukh Khan To Students: Follow Your Heart

India - Arab Today

Speaking at the sixth convocation of MANUU at the campus in Hyderabad, Khan said: “Through my work, whatever little I can do I promise I will make sure that I will do it to the best of my capabilities.” MANUU Chancellor Zafar Sareshwala conferred the doctorate on Khan and Urdu activist and Rekhta Foundation founder Sanjiv Sarraf. “For his extraordinaryRead more

Ticks bite record numbers in Switzerland

Geneva - XINHUA

Some 21,900 people visited a doctor through the end of July this year after having being bitten by a tick, the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) reported Monday. According to FOPH's bulletin, this represents the highest number of medical consultations caused by tick bites since statistics of this nature were first compiled in 2008. This figure also vastlyRead more

Patient shoots doctor at Berlin hospital, then kills himself

Berlin - Arab Today

A patient shot a doctor before committing suicide at a Berlin hospital on Tuesday, police said, adding there was no sign the incident was a terrorist attack. A police spokeswoman told AFP that several shots were fired at a university hospital in the well-heeled southwestern Steglitz neighborhood of the German capital. “According to preliminary information, a patient at the hospitalRead more

Muslim doctor shot while on his way to Houston mosque

Houston - Arab Today

A doctor headed for morning prayers at a Houston mosque was reportedly ambushed by three masked men who shot and wounded him on Sunday, a day after a Muslim man was beaten outside a Florida mosque. The victim of the Texas incident, identified as Dr. Arslan Tajammul, an eye specialist, was undergoing surgery and was expected to survive, according toRead more