Health

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 …

Breakfast is undoubtedly the most important meal of the day because it breaks the night fast and provides the energy needed to face the day. After resting during the night’s sleep the body needs to recoup its strength and eating after getting up does precisely that. It would be mistake to skip breakfast thinking that it is a good dieting …

ISLAMABAD: In last 24 hours 55 cases of COVID-19 reported in country and no death by the disease reported, the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) said on Sunday. According to the NCOC, positivity ratio of the disease remained 1.43 in the country. In last 24 hours 3,836 Covid-19 tests conducted and 55 of them found positive, the NCOC shared …

KARACHI: Young Doctors Association (YDA) – Karachi Chapter – threatened to boycott all sectors of medical institutions if police fail to arrest the killers of Dr Birbal Genani. Young Doctors Association (YDA) held a meeting in Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) Karachi in which the office-bearers announced to hold three days of mourning after the target killing of Dr Birbal …