Health

More than half the world’s countries will be at high or very high risk of measles outbreaks by the end of the year unless urgent preventative measures are taken, the World Health Organization warned on Tuesday. Measles cases have been increasing across most regions mainly due to missed vaccinations during the COVID-19 years when health systems were overwhelmed and fell …

Pneumonia claimed 13 more lives of children during the past 24 hours in Punjab. According to the Punjab Health Department, a total of 304 new cases of pneumonia were reported during the last 24 hours. The health authorities said two children lost their lives during the last 24 hours in Lahore. Furthermore, Punjab has reported 25073 cases of pneumonia including …

LAHORE: 14-year-old housemaid, Rizwana, has again been admitted to General Hospital Lahore for expected surgery of her arms. According to General Hospital Lahore’s Principal Faridal Zafar, the medical panel will examine the alignment of Rizwana’s arms, head and face injuries. It may be recalled, that Rizwana was again brought to the hospital after getting discharged on December 5, last year, …

CAIRO: Fighting, fuel shortages and Israeli raids put the Gaza Strip’s second-largest hospital completely out of service on Sunday, local and UN health officials said, as Israel battled Hamas in the devastated Palestinian enclave. The latest blow to Gaza’s destroyed healthcare sector came as Israel prepared for an assault of the southernmost city Rafah, home now to more than a …

ISLAMABAD: A unilateral decision by the health ministry to ban the prescription of nutraceuticals, also known as dietary supplements, will impact the welfare of patients, said medical experts. The blanket ban on the prescription came after the health ministry was asked to fix the prices of these products amid their excessive use and take action against medical professionals who were …

President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday that Russian scientists were close to creating vaccines for cancer that could soon be available to patients. Putin said in televised comments that “we have come very close to the creation of so-called cancer vaccines and immunomodulatory drugs of a new generation”. “I hope that soon they will be effectively used as methods of …

A small but rapidly growing number of U.S. adolescents began treatment with Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy last year, a powerful new tool to address record rates of pediatric obesity, according to data shared exclusively with Reuters. In the first 10 months of 2023, 1,268 children ages 12 to 17 with an obesity diagnosis started taking Wegovy, according to U.S. …

The emergency global stockpile of cholera vaccines is empty with all available doses for this month already allocated to countries battling major outbreaks, two United Nations agencies told Reuters. The rest of this year will see a predicted shortfall of at least 50 million doses between demand and supply, a UNICEF official added, as cases continue to surge worldwide. “The …

A study of frozen blood samples has turned up a trove of proteins that may predict several forms of dementia more than 10 years before the disease is diagnosed, researchers from the U.K. and China reported on Monday. The study, published in the journal Nature Aging, is part of ongoing research from multiple teams to identify patients at risk for …

ISLAMABAD: As new Covid-19 variants emerge across the globe, Pakistan has managed to obtain another 300,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine. “Although currently no country has made it mandatory to get vaccinated against Covid-19 before travelling, there is a possibility that Saudi Arabia may declare the vaccination mandatory as people will gather there during Ramazan and then on the occasion …