Why I write this
I have spent years building the systems that connect laboratory analysers to health records, across the UK and the Middle East. That means I see every day how a lab number is actually produced, where instruments go wrong, and how a result travels to the doctor and the patient.
Arabic health content online is mostly badly translated, written to sell something, or blind to the realities of this region: cousin marriage, vitamin D deficiency in the sunniest places on earth, shisha, fasting, and health systems that have partly collapsed. Sihtak is an attempt to close that gap.
How these articles are written
Every article is built from published sources: the World Health Organization, the UK NHS, the US CDC, health ministries across the region, and peer-reviewed studies. Sources are listed at the foot of each article so you can check them.
We avoid miracle cures and confident promises. Where the evidence is genuinely unsettled, we say so instead of inventing an answer.
What I am not
I am not a doctor and I do not claim to be. These articles are health education to help you understand your own situation and ask your doctor better questions. They are not a diagnosis and not a prescription. Do not start or stop any medicine based on what you read here.