Category archives for: Health

Terrorist attacks complicate Pakistan’s anti-polio campaign

Terrorist attacks on volunteers of anti-polio teams in Karachi and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday and Wednesday, which claimed lives of five women and a male in only 24 hours, have raised serious concern about the success of the campaign in Pakistan.   All law enforcement agencies have miserably failed to apprehend the culprits who fled […]

Supreme Court directs government to pay Lady Health Worker by midnight

In order to lessen the plight of already hapless segment of society, the Supreme Court has issued directives to the government to deliver the salaries of the Lady Health Workers (LHW) to their residences by Friday midnight. A three-member bench of the highest court of the country with Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry in the […]

Young doctors call the strike off

Young doctors call the strike off The Young Doctors Association (YDA), Punjab, has called off its strike and resumed treatment of patients in all departments of public sector hospitals in the province in compliance with orders of the Lahore High Court. “The normal functioning of indoor and outdoor wards resumed in hospitals on Monday”said YDA, Punjab, office-bearers including its president Dr Hamid Butt, […]

Significant progress towards the goal of Universal Salt Iodisation

Significant progress towards the goal of Universal Salt Iodisation Punjab Health Services Director General Dr Nisar Ahmed Cheema on Friday appreciated the role of media in ‘significant progress’ towards the goal of Universal Salt Iodisation (USI). Addressing a media dissemination seminar, he said media has been consistently highlighting the importance of micronutrients such as iodine, […]

More coloured tomatoes are tasteless, a study shows

Whenever we go the vegetable market or Sabzi Mandi to buy tomatoes, we always ask for fresh and comparatively more coloured ones believing that they will be tastier than those less red. Event the farmers who breed the tomatoes prefer to pluck the tomatoes off the plants when they are richly coloured having the same […]

Stacey Comerford wakes up from Sleeping Beauty Syndrome

Stacey Comerford was suffering from a rare neurological disorder called Kleine Levin Syndrome (KLS), also known as Sleeping Beauty Syndrome, a condition affecting only about 1,000 people around the world. This disorder induces long periods of sleep recently awoke after sleeping for two months. While speaking to the Sun, Comerford said, “I’ve missed nine exams […]

Sugar makes you stupid

Craving for chocolates? Or is it pudding? A new study reveals how sugar can aid in making a person dumb. Beware. The trinkets fascinate many people. What is most sweet. Sugary sodas make us hopping for joy. But only that abusemos of them for 6 weeks straight, then we will become more stupid: our brains […]

Scientists believe glow-in-the-dark cats can help treating HIV AIDS

With the help of genetic engineering, the Mayo Clinic scientists were able to create glow-in-the-dark kitty that has genes that code for a fluorescent jellyfish protein, which produces the green colour, as well as an antiviral restriction factor from a rhesus macaque. The researchers have created three genetically engineered kittens that can glow green and […]

How to diagnose and treat Elephantiasis?

Elephantiasis is a rare disease which is characterized by thickening of skin and human body tissues. It thickened the skin of human legs and male and female genitals. Elephantiasis is also called Lymphatic Filariasis. This infection is at increasing rate in tropical and sub-tropical areas where lymphatic filriasis is deep-rooted. Causes Elephantiasis is atypical disease […]

Fast food, a major cause of obesity – Part 2

The relationship between fast food and the fatness is very straight and simple because fast food is usually contains high calories, salt, artificial flavors, fried meat, sausages and sugar etc in a high quantity. The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) (2010) has studied the eating habits of young adults in America. They […]

Fast food, a major cause of obesity – Part 1

Fast food is a term used for the food which is available at restaurants and cooked with the preheated and precooked ingredients. These fast foods are usually made of a lot of cheese, fried chicken and meat, Chinese salt, sugar, sausages, mayonnaise and salt etc. After 1951 there came new trends of fast food centers […]

Sufferings of patients increasing as young Doctors’ strike enters sixth day

Sufferings of the patients have been increased, as the young doctors across Punjab continued to protest against transfer orders of a number of their colleagues, withdrawing their services from outpatient departments and demanding cancellation of transfer orders on the sixth day. Doctors according to the media reports are considering suspending work in the indoor departments […]

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