Health

WASHINGTON: When Michel Sadelain began his decades-long quest to genetically modify immune cells to fight cancer, his peers dismissed his ideas as absurd and even his mother grew concerned for his career. On Thursday, the French and Canadian scientist was announced as a winner of the prestigious Breakthrough Prize for his pioneering work in CAR T-cell therapy, a new form …

NEW DELHI: The deaths of 12 children in northern India between December 2019 and January 2020, police allege, were caused by adulterated cough syrup made by drugmaker Digital Vision. It was not the first time the company’s medicines have come under scrutiny. Indian drugs regulators found quality shortfalls in drugs made by Digital and its unit Orison Pharmaceuticals at least …

India’s southern state of Kerala shut some schools, offices and public transport, authorities said on Wednesday, as they scrambled to rein in the spread of the rare and deadly brain-damaging Nipah virus that has killed two people. An adult and a child are still infected in hospital, and more than 130 people have been tested for the virus, spread via …

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday authorized updated COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna that target a recently circulating Omicron variant of the coronavirus, paving the way for the launch later this week of a fall vaccination campaign. A third shot, made by Novavax, is still under review by the FDA. Novavax said it did not expect …

UK Health Security Agency (UKSHA) said on Friday that 34 COVID-19 cases linked to the highly mutated variant BA.2.86 had been identified in England. The Omicron offshoot carries more than 35 mutations in key portions of the virus compared with XBB.1.5, the dominant variant through most of 2023, a number roughly on par with the Omicron variant that caused record …

The Sindh health authorities have issued special guidelines to the airports and airlines after a rise in pink eye infection or conjunctivitis cases. The provincial Border Health Services (BHS) director Dr Murtaza Shah said in a statement that guidelines have been issued to the medical staff and airlines after a rise in pink eye infection cases. The airlines have been …

RAWALPINDI: There is no let-up in dengue cases in the garrison city as 25more patients arrived in three government-run hospitals on Saturday, taking the season tally to 366. After arrival of new patients, at present 63 confirmed dengue patients are under treatment in Rawalpindi hospitals and nine of them were in critical condition. Total 22 confirmed dengue patients are in …

ISLAMABAD: The presence of wild poliovirus has been confirmed in Lahore after sewage samples collected from different areas tested positive, according to health officials. The virus detection was confirmed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Reference Laboratory at the National Institute of Health. The sample was collected from the Multan Road area. Three of the four samples from the …

KARACHI: As dengue has started rearing its head and creating fear that the vector-borne illness is likely to affect a large segment of population in coming weeks, mosquitoes carrying malaria pathogens seemed to have expanded their range with reports of more than a hundred cases in a day being reported at one major tertiary care public sector hospital of the …

As if the soft, sweet and pulpy taste of papaya wasn’t enough for it to be a choice of all generations, do you know that it is packed with a great nutrition profile and its seeds are a source of several health benefits? This fruit is not only a great option to curb those hunger pangs and sweet cravings without …