Superbugs killed 33,000 Europeans in 2015: study

Paris  -Drug-resistant bacteria killed more than 33,000 people in the European Union in 2015, according to new research published this week ...

Minister orders treatment facilities for female cancer patient

LAHORE: Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid has taken notice of miserable condition of a young female patient and directed the Health De...

UN sets out massive benefits from air pollution action in Asia

Smoke rises from the chimney of a paper factory outside Hanoi, Vietnam May 21, 2018. REUTERSGENEVA: Asia could reap massive benefits in heal...

Chimpanzees react faster to cooperate than make selfish choices

Chimpanzees   tend to be faster than humans at making decisions  that are aimed at  benefiting  others, a study revealed.The search from Uni...

Air pollution is the new tobacco killing 7m people a year, warns WHO head

Picture taken while Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was speaking at a press conference in 2017. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFPAir pollution ...

CM promises 17 mega health projects for south Punjab

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar Sunday said that Rs 2.23 billion has been allocated for 17 mega health projects in south P...

Battles begin to turn in long war on TB

THE HAGUE: It kills millions of people and is carried by a quarter of humans, yet there has been just a handful of new drugs in decades and ...

Millions with high blood sugar face TB risk

THE HAGUE: Millions of people with high blood sugar may be at greater risk of tuberculosis than previously thought, scientists said Friday, ...

Doctors cannot use mobile phones in KP hospitals

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has banned use of mobile phone by all the health officials during official hours.The step was ta...

New TB test could save hundreds of thousands of children: scientists

The Hague:- Scientists on Thursday unveiled a revolutionary way of screening children for tuberculosis, which they say will prevent hundreds...

Aseefa says making Pakistan a polio free has become her mission

KARACHI: Rotary Ambassador for Polio Aseefa Bhutto Zardari celebrated World Polio Day at the Emergency Operation Centre for Polio and inocul...

Aseefa Bhutto inoculates children with polio drops

KARACHI: Rotary Ambassador for Polio Ms. Aseefa Bhutto Zardari celebrated World Polio Day at the Emergency Operation Centre for Polio and in...

President Alvi urges Pakistan to rise and end polio

ISLAMABAD: President Arif Ali has called on the nation to rise and end polio virs from the country once and for all. His message came as Pak...

Pakistan fully committed to ending polio: Imran Khan on World Polio Day

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in his message on the World Polio Day has reiterated government’s resolve to ending the polio ...

Medical students establish HDU at JPMC at the cost of 3.5m rupees

Karachi: Executive Director Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center (JPMC) Dr. Seemin Jamali on Tuesday inaugurated a newly-established High Depe...

Plastics have entered human food chain, study shows

Paris -Bits of plastic have been detected in the faeces of people in Europe, Russia and Japan, according to research claiming to show for th...

Private schools' compliance to measles campaign a must: minister

Federal Health Minister Aamer Mehmood Kiani has monitored the National Measles Campaign through visiting health centers in the outskirts of ...

Pakistani doctor elected President of Royal Society of Medicine’s ENT section

LONDON: A British Pakistani has been elected as President of the Royal Society of Medicine (ENT Section) in recognition of his services to B...

Australia´s Queensland state legalises abortion

Activists in favor of the legalization of abortion disguised as characters from Canadian author Margaret Atwood´s feminist dystopian novel ...

Polio virus targets two more children in Karachi, Khyber Agency

ISLAMABAD: The National Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) for Polio Eradication has notified two new polio cases from Gadap, Karachi and Khy...