SPEAKERS at a seminar on HIV/AIDS have pointed out a huge discrepancy in the actual incidence of AIDS among up to 80,000 patients against a registered number of just 5,500 patients in Pakistan. They were speaking at a seminar on...
News about health often focuses on the negative: scary new flu viruses, incurable diseases, dashed hopes for miracle drugs. Maybe that's because we have such high expectations that doctors and scientists can fix anything.But amid all that bad news—not to...
THE Punjab Health Department has claimed that the proposed Healthcare Commission bill, tabled in the Punjab Assembly for approval, aims at regulating the unregulated healthcare sector in public and private sector with a view to curb unethical medical practice and...
Peshawar :: Pakistan
| updated Sat Nov 21 07:07:52 -0800 2009
| health-news
The Pakistan Paediatric Association (PPA) organized a moot of Child-Health experts and practitioners at a local hotel, to commemorate the occasion of “International Children’s Day”, which is celebrated globally on November 20th every year. This heavily attended forum comprised...
If you’re trying to get your mind off pain, think of something pleasant. That’s the conclusion of Canadian researchers who have linked mood to pain. “Emotions or mood can alter how we react to pain since they’re interlinked,” Mathieu Roy,...
PESHAWAR: The NWFP Health Department has ruled out outbreak of the Swine flu (H1N1) virus in the province and said it had made all preparations to handle any possible epidemic. Addressing a one-day capacity building workshop on clinical management of...
Career choice can be tough especially when options remain few and are influenced. The appropriate career selection for every individual is essential to have long-term job consistency and satisfaction. For years we have heard parents wanting and students desiring to...
PESHAWAR: A United Nations Fund for Population (UNFPA) report says that education and literacy indicators in the country are better than neighbouring India, however, infant mortality ratio per 1,000 births is still alarming in Pakistan. It says the infant mortality...
A drug has been found to cut the risk of heart attacks by almost half in 'healthy' people, researchers say today. Treatment with Crestor, a cholesterol-busting statin, cut the rate of heart problems and deaths from strokes by 46 per...
Ten million Pakistani are diabetes patients which is a dangerous disease throughout the world,Ten millions of total population on the age of 30 years are having diabetes which is not only a dangerous disease but also cause new diseases in...
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