Health

PARIS: The world’s oceans set a new temperature record this week, raising concerns about knock-on effects on the planet’s climate, marine life and coastal communities. The temperature of the oceans’ surface rose to 20.96 degrees Celsius on Friday, according to European Union climate observatory data. The previous record was 20.95C in March 2016, a spokeswoman for the EU’s Copernicus Climate …

LAHORE: PML-N senior vice president Maryam Nawaz has demanded strict action against those involved in brutal torture of teen maid Rizwana. She visited the Lahore General Hospital on Thursday and inquired after her. Talking to reporters, Ms Nawaz said the laws for the protection of underage domestic help were hardly implemented. She said if the suspect was sitting on the chair …

Massive wildfires in Canada have already spewed out twice the smoke emissions than the previous whole-year record, the EU’s climate monitor said on Thursday, with the blazes expected to continue to scorch their way through forests for weeks or even months. The devastating wildfires have burned some 30 million acres this year so far, incinerating an area larger than the …

It’s been just over three weeks since China increased checks on Japanese food imports over radiation concerns, but Kazuyuki Tanioka is already fearful for the future of his upscale Beijing sushi restaurant. Like most restaurants in China, Tanioka’s eight-year-old Toya has struggled with years of COVID-19 restrictions, which only began to ease late last year. Now it is facing a …

KARACHI: A PIA retiree, Shiekh Nizam Uddin, 73, is a man of integrity who prefers making a living by working in a ride-hailing service, over depending on help from anyone, in an economy where elderly cannot afford the luxury of living their old-age disengaged from financial difficulties. But there’s nothing to romanticize here with the life of the bike rider …

Two policemen escorting a polio vaccination team were martyred on Tuesday when armed men opened fire on them in Quetta’s Nawa Killi area, police said. The attack comes on the first day of a week-long campaign to administer the polio vaccination to approximately 2.6 million children under five years of age in Balochistan. Zarghoonabad Station House Officer (SHO) Asif Marwat confirmed the …

LAHORE: The condition of a 14-year-old housemaid, Rizwana, who was subjected to ‘brutal torture’ by a civil judge’s wife in Islamabad, suddenly worsened at Lahore General Hospital (LGH) on Monday. This was stated by Professor Sardar Alfareed, a doctor at Lahore General Hospital. He stated that the oxygen level of Rizwana suddenly worsened and steps are being made to improve …

The in-effectivity of antibiotics has become a serious factor in the medicinal annals of Pakistan and many sources dealing with healthcare are vociferously bringing this issue to fore. This fact is challenging the very basis of advancement in scientific approach that led to miraculous discoveries that revolutionized the way human race lived its life. The milestone was achieved when penicillin was discovered …

Singaporean Members of Parliament (MPs) Liang Eng Hwa and Baey Yam Keng have been diagnosed with a rare form of nose cancer, known as nasopharyngeal cancer. The silent onset of this rare cancer poses challenges for early detection. Experts reveal crucial facts about the disease to raise awareness among the public. Nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) is a disease that develops from …

QUETTA: A campaign to administer polio vaccination to approximately 2.6 million children under five years of age will be launched across Balochistan from August 1, according to the province’s polio eradication programme head. Syed Zahid Shah, the provincial Emergency Operation Centre coordinator, said 11,539 teams of health workers have been formed for the seven-day campaign. He was briefing a meeting …