Karachi youth dies of naegleria
- 13-Sep-2025
Karachi: A youth of Karachi on Saturday died owing to naegleria fowleri, brain-eating amoeba, ARY News reported, quoting the Sindh health department. With the latest death, the number of causalities climbed to five in 2025. According to the health department, the symptoms of the infection were surfaced on September 7 on the 29-year-old youth, resident […]
HIV outbreak: Screening of dialysis patients made mandatory in Punjab
- 20-Nov-2024
LAHORE: The Punjab government has made the HIV/AIDS screening of dialysis patients mandatory every after three months across the province. Punjab Health Minister Khawaja Imran Nazir said that the screening and testing of patients has been made obligatory in all the hospitals under the management of the Primary Health Care Department. He directed the relevant […]
After COVID, WHO defines disease spread ‘through air’
- 18-Apr-2024
The World Health Organization and around 500 experts have agreed for the first time what it means for a disease to spread through the air, in a bid to avoid the confusion early in the COVID-19 pandemic that some scientists have said cost lives. The Geneva-based U.N. health agency released a technical document on the […]
Causes of viruses
- 29-Dec-2023
The globalised world is consistently experiencing breakouts of viruses of various kinds and shapes that affect the people to varying degree. Since many years the world has seen the eruption of Coronavirus, Polio, Ebola and Monkey pox and many other minor forms of such illnesses that cause widespread distress. There are several factors that why […]
Heat, disease, air pollution: How climate change impacts health
- 26-Nov-2023
Growing calls for the world to come to grips with the many ways that global warming affects human health have prompted the first day dedicated to the issue at crunch UN climate talks starting next week. Extreme heat, air pollution and the increasing spread of deadly infectious diseases are just some of the reasons why […]
Pakistan’s first two monkeypox patients recover from disease
- 30-Apr-2023
ISLAMABAD: Federal Ministry of Health said Sunday that the first two monkeypox cases reported in Pakistan last week have recovered from the virus, ARY News reported quoting sources The person, who arrived from Saudi Arabia and was under treatment at the Pakistan Institute Of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Hospital, has been discharged, health ministry officials said. […]
Fact Check: What is monkeypox virus & should Pakistan fear it?
- 26-May-2022
Since early May, the news of monkeypox outbreak across Europe and America have got people fearing if the world was looking at yet another pandemic outbreak. That’s when the COVID-19 has barely let it breathe. But no, there have not been any cases in Pakistan, as rumored. A viral infection– much like Covid, however not […]
Netizens make fun of baby with syndrome that affects body systems
- 03-Sep-2021
Progeria causes extreme premature ageing that affects body systems
Woman with mystery virus quarantined
- 13-Jan-2020
A Chinese woman has been quarantined in Thailand with a mystery strain of coronavirus, authorities said on Monday
Pneumonia kills a child every 39 seconds
- 12-Nov-2019
Nigeria, India, Pakistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ethiopia accounted for more than half the children who died of pneumonia last year