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Doctors, nurses and other health care professionals can apply to have their YouTube channels certified, the video sharing platform said Thursday, in a push to limit misinformation on the site. The change will allow viewers to more easily access videos containing “high-quality health information,” YouTube said. “This is a big step towards helping people more easily find and connect with …

MONTREAL: Hayley Wickenheiser, a Canadian member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Athletes Commission, says medical experts should decide whether or not to stage the Tokyo Olympics, not athletes or the IOC. Wickenheiser, a six-time Olympian who won four ice hockey gold medals and also played softball at the 2000 Summer Games, told CBC Sports that safety and public health need to …

KARACHI: Patients reporting at the outpatient departments (OPDs) of public sector hospitals on Tuesday in parts of Sindh had to return home without getting treatment as doctors and paramedical staff boycotted health services in protest, demanding restoration of Covid-19 health risk allowance. The healthcare providers were protesting on a strike call given by the Grand Health Alliance Sindh which is …

MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir President Sardar Masood Khan has said that the spirit of doctors and other medical staff saving lives of people at the peril of their own lives has kept the Covid-19 pandemic in AJK under control. Speaking at two functions organised by Pakistan Red Crescent Society, at the Abbas Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) and the …

LAHORE: After Nishtar Hospital, Multan, the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) Lahore has also emerged as another flashpoint of Covid-19 as according to reports, at least 12 doctors, nurses and paramedics have been found positive for the virus, besides a patient who underwent a bypass surgery at the institute. The samples of 250 people, including doctors and paramedics working at …

KARACHI: The Sindh government has inducted some 3,000 volunteers — more than 30 among them are doctors and over 300 IT professionals — in less than a week on its appeal to fight the growing number of coronavirus cases, receiving “tremendous response” mainly from the people of Karachi, which forced the authorities to call off the induction till the next …