Health

ISLAMABAD: The Health Inequ­ality Data Repository (HIDR), laun­ched by World Health Organisation (WHO), shows that in just a decade, the rich-poor gap in health service coverage among women, newborns and children in low- and middle-income countries has nearly halved. The report also revealed that in these countries eliminating wealth-related inequality in under-five mortality could help save the lives of 1.8 …

The death toll in a fire that ripped through a hospital in China’s capital Beijing has risen to 29, a city official said Wednesday. The fire at the Beijing Changfeng Hospital in the Fengtai District broke out at around 1pm (5am GMT) on Tuesday and was extinguished about half an hour later. Li Zongrong, deputy mayor of the district, expressed …

A Johnson & Johnson subsidiary is again asking a U.S. judge to pause tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging that the company’s baby powder and other talc products cause cancer, as it takes another shot at resolving the litigation in bankruptcy after a federal appeals court found its first attempt improper. At a Tuesday hearing in Trenton, New Jersey, LTL …

Ghana has become the first country in the world to approve a new malaria vaccine from Oxford University, a potential step forward in fighting a disease that kills hundreds of thousands of children each year. The approval is unusual as it comes before the publication of final-stage trial data. It is unclear when the vaccine may be rolled out in …

A Chinese woman has become the first person to die from a type of bird flu that is rare in humans, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said, but the strain does not appear to spread between people. The 56-year-old woman from the southern province of Guangdong was the third person known to have been infected with the H3N8 subtype of …

Healthy eating includes replacing meat in the diet with beans, lentils, chickpeas and the like because it is a viable and easy way to increase daily food intake. One must be aware that those just starting out with legumes may find them difficult to digest but gradually increasing the quantity of legumes in the diet will help one’s body adapt …

A US judge in Texas on Friday suspended the two-decade-old approval of the abortion pill mifepristone while a legal challenge proceeds, dealing another setback to abortion rights in the United States. Adding to the volatile legal landscape around abortion, a federal judge in Washington state on Friday issued a seemingly conflicting injunction that prevented federal regulators from altering access to …

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif announced on Friday the launch of the government’s “first dedicated mental health app and helpline”. The development comes as the world celebrates World Health Day. This year, the World Health Organisation (WHO) is celebrating its 75th anniversary. “On this World Health Day, I am pleased to announce the launch of government’s first dedicated mental health app #Humraaz & …

The World Health Organisation chief pressed China on Thursday to share its information about the origins of Covid-19, saying that until that happened all hypotheses remained on the table, more than three years after the virus first emerged. “Without full access to the information that China has, you cannot say this or that,” said Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in response to …

Shams Nazeer is an 11-year-old footballer from Malir’s Jam Goth, who juggles school & labour to support his dreams to play football internationally in big stadiums. He currently plays for Karachi United, based in Clifton, some 30 kilometers from where he lives in Jam Goth, but this is not the only a gruelling part of his life. The sixth-grader has to …