According to a senior health official, Pakistan has wasted $3.7 million worth of donated vaccines for children after failing to store them in the prescribed manner. The pentavalent vaccines were to prevent children from succumbing to deadly diseases like diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B, meningitis and pneumonia. These vaccines require cold temperatures in storage but the […]
The National Assembly committee was shocked when Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Mian Ijaz presented a list of 19 packed food items sold in Pakistan which included haram ingredients. According to Mr. Ijaz, the ministry does not have the authority to prevent the sale of these items, which include two brands […]
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In order to demonstrate their protest against the kidnappings and target killings of doctors, the Pakistan Medical Association will go on strike today, Monday. Speaking to reports on Sunday, the Pakistan Medical Association’s President, Dr Abdul Aziz Lehri stated that the strike would be observed in government and private hospitals throughout the country. According to […]
Seven children have reportedly died during the ongoing 12 days long anti-measles vaccination campaign in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Four children died in Charsadda and three lost their lives in Peshawer after they were immunized with measles vaccine. Measles vaccination campaign was initiated by the Ministry of National Health to mark the World Immunisation Week […]
The Foreign Office spokesperson Tasnim Aslam has claimed that there is no ban on Pakistani nationals to travel abroad imposed by WHO. She clarified that WHO has recommended Polio vaccination for Pakistanis before embarking on an international journey. She said that WHO only recommended and not restricted. The spokesperson said that Pakistan has raised the […]
Pakistan will be setting up polio vaccination counters on all international airports and other point of entries to comply with the recommendations of the World Heal Organization recommendations. WHO had recommended mandatory polio vaccination of all the Pakistanis traveling abroad on Monday May 5, 2014. There had already been 59 cases of polio in Pakistan […]
In two years, the new coronavirus that appeared in the Middle East has affected at least 723 people, of which 131 have died, according to the last count of the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC). These figures have soared in the last month, where cases only in Saudi Arabia increased by 86 %. In […]
World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended that all travelers from Pakistan, Syria and Cameron must get vaccinated for polio before starting their international journey. WHO also recommended that all these three countries must declare a national health emergency to eradicate the polio virus. According to reports, the recent cases of polio in other parts of […]
The problem of resistance to diseases is not new, but the WHO has tried for the first time, put numbers. Therefore, it has asked the 194 countries that are members of the organization to send the most recent data they have. And there has emerged the first problem: only 114 had information about any of […]
May 1 2014 | Posted in
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The strength of a man or woman has been measured throughout history by their number of followers. Faithful followers, fellow, supporters, sympathizers, supporters… Followers. Carlo Petrini does not have Twitter, but a tide of hundreds of thousands of followers worldwide – and growing – between now included Pope Francisco and, for years, Prince Charles. But […]
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In the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease, those affected begin to lose the ability to learn and memorize. Thus, one can not remember their house, neighborhood bakery, his own children in some cases and even where he got married. Good news is that some Spanish scientists have successfully reversed Alzheimer in mice, the memory loss […]
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It was thought that the few genes that fit the Y chromosome were used for little more than trigger the development of fetal testes to produce sperm. Two papers from the University of Lausanne and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston) now show that the human Y chromosome originated at the time of separation between […]
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