Health

Every year in the United States, about 5,000 young people take their own lives. According to a CDC report in 2016, suicide was the second-leading cause of death in people ages 10 to 34. Many more may be in crisis and don’t know where to turn for help. New community mental health training in Collin County aims to change that. Laura …

ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani on Monday took notice of the mysterious disease that has spread in  Bolan district of Balochistan and ordered to send a team of experts to tackle the situation. The team will gather information about the disease and will formulate a strategy to check the epidemic. The members of Balochistan provincial assembly and local representatives …

ISLAMABAD: The first nationwide polio vaccination campaign of 2019 starts across Pakistan on 21st January.  During this campaign, a total of 260,000 frontline workers will go door to door across all provinces and towns to ensure more than 39 million children under the age of five receive two drops of the vaccine which will protect them against the polio virus. …

KARACHI: On the concluding day of the three-day international multidisciplinary robotic surgery workshop at the OT Complex Civil Hospital Karachi and the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) on Saturday, a “successful” robotic surgical procedure was performed for the first time in Pakistan on a female patient. Hailing from Balochistan, the woman had intractable bleeding acquiring multiple transfusions. The …

JAIPUR: At least 40 people have died and more than 1,000 have tested positive for swine flu since the beginning of this year in a western Indian state popular with foreigners, authorities said Friday. Last year around 1,100 people died and 15,000 were infected across India by the highly contagious A H1N1 virus that spreads from human-to-human. Cases spike in …

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan Tuesday expressed his gratitude to all the donors for their help in achieving the financial targets of Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital (SKMCH) for the year 2018. On his twitter account, he expressed his confidence that the people would continue their support in the mission to save lives of the poor cancer patients in Pakistan …

PESHAWAR: The World Health Organisation, which is providing technical assistance to the authorities to streamline healthcare financing in all provinces and Azad Jammu and Kashmir, will help them to put in place a uniform programme of free healthcare across the country. A mission of WHO including Prof Soonman, Dr Faraz Khalid and Dr Mohammad Saeed Akbar Khan held discussions with …

LAHORE: Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar Saturday, during hearing of a case, appreciated Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid’s performance. The bench headed by the CJP was hearing a case regarding private universities at the Supreme Court Lahore Registry. The chief justice made the observations after Dr Yasmin Rashid told that the opposition was demanding her resignation over his remarks …

KARACHI: Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) on Saturday stated that it was “extremely concerned” over the “unacceptable” increase in the prices of medicines by the federal government. “The announcement of 15 per cent hike in medicine prices by the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan with the consent of the federal government is highly disappointing and unacceptable,” said Dr S.M. Qaisar Sajjad, …

LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Health Dr Yasmin Rashid on Saturday told the Supreme Court that the Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute (PKLI) would start conducting paediatric liver transplant within six months. The minister also informed a two-judge SC bench that the Punjab cabinet had approved a draft legislation to abolish the trust of the PKLI which would be run by …