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 […]
HIV disinformation: ‘patients fear resentment over death in Pakistan’
- 21-Dec-2022
For 45-year-old ZG* things turned upside down in 2015, when amid his preparations to go to Saudi Arabia to fill a telecommunications sector vacancy, his medical tests suggested some anomaly. The medical board kept calling him over for new tests or to repeat the previous ones to ascertain what was wrong, which was later found […]
Price of COVID treatments from align with patient benefits: report
- 04-Feb-2022
The prices of drugs used to treat COVID-19 for those at risk of serious illness are “reasonably aligned” with how much they help patients, according to a draft report from drug-pricing research organization the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review (ICER). The report assessed Pfizer’s Paxlovid and Merck molnupiravir – both recently authorized antiviral pills […]
Turkish haematologist-oncologist offers free consultation to patients in Lahore
- 15-Jan-2022
LAHORE: Turkish haematologist-oncologist, Professor Dr Muge Gundogdu has arrived in Lahore on a two-day visit and examined thalassemia and cancer patients at a local hotel, ARY News reported on Saturday. Dr Muge Gundogdu, a paediatric haematology and oncology specialist, has visited Lahore and examined patients with thalassemia, cancer, haemophilia and sickle cell anaemia patients at […]
Six patients who ‘refused’ COVID vaccination die
- 27-Sep-2021
A doctor from the Michigan state of the United States claimed that six of his coronavirus patients died after refusing vaccination. Dr. Matthew Trunsky, in a Facebook post, wrote that his patients wanted to resort to unverified coronavirus treatment options instead of following his recommendation and quoted different reasons. The doctor, who heads the palliative […]
This country is paying recovered COVID-19 patients to help in hospitals
- 25-Aug-2021
Vietnam is offering patients who have recovered from the coronavirus a monthly allowance if they agree to stay on at stretched hospitals to help health workers struggling to cope with an influx of infected people. After successfully containing COVID-19 for much of the pandemic, Vietnam is facing its worst outbreak to date driven by the […]
COVID-19 patients were younger in early 2021 vs late 2020
- 21-Aug-2021
The average hospitalized COVID-19 patient was younger this past spring than last winter, researchers at a large Pennsylvania health system found. They analyzed data from nearly 39,000 COVID-19 patients, including 7,774 who were hospitalized. People who tested positive in March and April 2021, when the Alpha variant of the coronavirus was circulating, were younger and […]
‘Long Covid’ patients haunted by unbearable smells like parosmia sufferers
- 28-Dec-2020
Doctors have found some people infected with novel coronavirus lose their sense of smell as sufferers were being haunted by horrible and unbearable smells.
309 coronavirus patients are on ventilators across country: NCOC
- 05-Dec-2020
202 out of 309 patients were put on ventilators in different medical facilities across Pakistan during the second wave of coronavirus pandemic.
One in five COVID-19 patients develop mental illness within 90 days – study
- 11-Nov-2020
The researchers from Britain’s Oxford University also found significantly higher risks of dementia, a brain impairment condition.