Affordable generic medicines in the UAE

What UAE law actually says about carrying prescription medicine into the country: which medicines are restricted, when you need a Ministry of Health and Prevention permit, and what to carry with you.

Most medicines are licensed to be stored below 25°C, and a UAE summer runs well past that. Which medicines fail first in the heat, which ones make heat itself riskier, and what to do about deliveries, cars and travel.

High blood pressure has almost no symptoms, and a hot climate changes how some of its treatments behave. What the numbers mean, which medicines are affected by heat and dehydration, and what to check before summer.

Type 2 diabetes symptoms can be mild enough to go unnoticed for years, so it is often diagnosed after complications have already started. What to watch for, what the treatments do, and why more than half of people with diabetes take no medication for it.

Allergy here is driven by airborne dust and indoor dust mites rather than a pollen season, so symptoms often run year round. What the triggers are, what the treatment classes do, and why the local pharmacy shelf uses names you may not recognise.

Melasma is most common in exactly the skin types most represented in the Gulf, and both ultraviolet and visible light drive it. Why ordinary sunscreen is not enough, what treatment involves, and why it comes back.

ED is common and usually treatable, and persistent ED can be an early warning of heart or circulation problems. The treatments, the one interaction that can be fatal, and why these medicines are among the most counterfeited in the world.

One in three reported bacterial infections in the Eastern Mediterranean Region is already resistant to antibiotics, against one in six globally. What drives it, why antibiotics do nothing for colds and flu, and what an individual can actually change.