Staff Writer Islamabad: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Aseefa Bhutto Zardari this week requested all parents to support the government in its effort towards polio eradication. On the occasion of World Polio Day 2022, she said the recent polio cases in Pakistan are a threat to our future generations and our children can be saved […]
Read MoreSara Al-Mulla Governments can never be too relentless in attracting and retaining talent. Now considered as powerhouses of global economies, exceptional talents have been instrumental in injecting innovation, productivity and economic growth across multiple industries, making them a valuable currency. But even as employers scramble to hire talents from all over the world, the post-pandemic […]
Read MoreStaff Writer Islamabad: The United States government has delivered an additional batch of eight million Pfizer Covid-19 pediatric vaccine doses to Pakistan. According to the US Embassy in Islamabad, this shipment increases the United States’ donation to more than 78 million safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine doses for the people of Pakistan, including 16 million […]
Read MoreStaff Writer Islamabad: There is at least a 50 per cent increase in dengue fever cases following recent rains in the country, especially in Karachi where hundreds and thousands of patients are affected daily at government and private hospitals, Federal Climate Change Minister Senator Sherry Rehman said this week, warning that more rains in the […]
Read MoreNewswire Milan: Italy’s state police were tasked with a life-saving mission when two officers used a Lamborghini Huracán to transport a kidney from Milan to a patient in the Lazio region around Rome. Travelling at speeds of 300 km/ph the police raced from Niguarda hospital in Milan to the unidentified hospital in Lazio in just […]
Read MoreCarly Cassella Tokyo: A child’s manner of walking can tell a doctor a lot about their health and development. But the transition from tottering toddler to strutting teen is not as universal as you might think. Depending on where in the world a child grows up, their gait may mature in a slightly different way. […]
Read MoreStaff Writer Islamabad: Japan has removed Pakistan from its “category of red list countries” in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. The development was also confirmed by Pakistan’s embassy in Tokyo. “As a result of the efforts of the embassy of Pakistan, Tokyo, the government of Japan has removed Pakistan from the category of red-listed countries […]
Read MoreNewswire Rome: An Italian man dying due to complications from a heart attack married his partner in the intensive care unit of a hospital in north Italy, however shortly after the ceremony he received news that a new heart had become available. The incredible story happened in the Molinette hospital in Turin after the 47-year-old […]
Read MoreStaff Writer Islamabad: Ambassador of Denmark to Pakistan Lis Rosenholm this week launched the pre-diabetes clinic at Umar Diabetes Foundation. “An honor to launch the pre-diabetes clinic at Umar Diabetes Foundation. Diabetes is a global problem and also growing in ???? But we have knowledge on how to prevent as well as live a good […]
Read MoreTokyo: More than a month has passed since the Japanese government relaxed its guidance on mask usage to reflect subsiding fears of the coronavirus, yet its call for removing masks whenever possible has not caught on widely among the public. There has never been a mask mandate in the country, but more than two years […]
Read MoreWilliam A. Haseltine Once again, COVID-19 is rampaging unchecked through the US population because there are no longer any public health measures in place to adequately protect against infection. I myself have taken extraordinary precautions to avoid infection for the last two-and-a-half years because I met three of the qualifications for severe COVID-19: I am […]
Read MoreWang Wen Recently, many international financial institutions have continued to downgrade China’s economic growth forecasts. Badmouthing China is not something new, and China’s economy is indeed facing a lot of downward pressure due to factors like the COVID-19 epidemic. But objectively speaking, these pessimistic opinions are based on either groundless accusations or exaggeration to deliberately […]
Read MoreAntonio Andreoni & Rainer Quitzow While the COVID-19 crisis has brought much suffering and many socioeconomic burdens, it has also shown how targeted cooperation between the state and business can speed innovation. Addressing the climate crisis calls for similarly creative collaboration. In both cases, accelerating innovation and experimenting with local solutions is necessary but not […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: SINOVAC has expressed keen interest in setting up a joint venture for the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of Covid by investing in Pakistan. A delegation of the company discussed the opportunities with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif at a meeting here. SINOVAC’s General Manager Qiang Gao led the Chinese company delegation. The Prime […]
Read MoreDr Theodore karasik The monkeypox outbreak is drawing attention from international medical surveillance professionals and health practitioners because of key elements present in this latest event, originating from the African continent. Indeed, the international environment is heated and weary of disease and warfare. News reports say that about 130 confirmed or suspected cases of monkeypox, […]
Read MoreMatthew Loh Tokyo: A man in Japan who received COVID-19 relief payments meant for 463 households in his town last month disappeared after transferring the funds out of his bank account, the local news outlet SoraNews24 reported. The 24-year-old man, who wasn’t named, had 46.3 million yen ($358,857) worth of financial aid for the people […]
Read MoreHu Xijin This wave of COVID-19 outbreak in Beijing may have been spreading covertly for a week, and many fear the virus will spread further. It’s also unknown when Shanghai will be able to contain the outbreak, and if there are large infections in Beijing, the impact will be unimaginable. The ability to effectively control […]
Read MoreTala Jarjour The coronavirus pandemic has not yet left the headlines, but it is no longer all doom and gloom. Infection numbers are falling, steadily in some countries, and restrictions on life and work have been reduced or lifted altogether in many parts of the world. The travel sector is gearing up for a busy […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Jamshoro: The Advanced Dental Laboratory at Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS) Jamshoro was inaugurated at LUMHS Advanced Dental Care Center this week equipped with the Chinese technology. Vice Chancellor, Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences Jamshoro, Professor Dr Ikram Din Ujjan inaugurated the Laboratory. Addressing the inauguration ceremony, the […]
Read MoreScientists have solved a 100-year-old mystery about the evolutionary links between malaria parasites that infect humans and chimpanzees. They have discovered that the parasite P. malariae – one of six species that spreads malaria among humans – originated in African apes before evolving to infect people. While it is often associated with mild disease, if […]
Read MoreTokyo: Japan plans to ease COVID 19-related border restrictions by lifting its entry ban for foreignnationals from 106 countries including the United States, Britain and France, the government said. Tokyo has been gradually relaxing pandemic-induced curbs but the loosened border regime does not mean a full reopening to tourists. The foreign ministry said in an […]
Read MoreResearchers have shown a new compound delivered in a nasal spray is highly effective in preventing and treating COVID-19 caused by the Delta variant in mice. The researchers, including at UBC, Université de Sherbrooke, and Cornell University, believe this is the first treatment of its kind proven to be effective against all COVID-19 variants of […]
Read MoreAn interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Missouri, Children’s Mercy Kansas City and Texas Children’s Hospital has used a new data-driven approach to learn more about persons with Type 1 diabetes, who account for about 5-10% of all diabetes diagnoses. The team gathered its information through health informatics and applied artificial intelligence (AI) […]
Read MoreGwadar Pro Islamabad: China has played a key role in Pakistan’s combat against the COVID-19 pandemic, a senior Pakistani minister said. Federal Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar, who also heads the National Command and Operation Center (NCOC), told Gwadar Pro that China’s help and support was instrumental to where Pakistan is at the […]
Read MoreRice University bioengineers have shown they can eradicate advanced-stage ovarian and colorectal cancer in mice in as little as six days with a treatment that could be ready for human clinical trials later this year. The researchers used implantable “drug factories” the size of a pinhead to deliver continuous, high doses of interleukin-2, a natural […]
Read MoreWilliam A. Haseltine It is now well known that SARS-CoV-2, the strain of coronavirus that causes COVID-19, can mutate to evade vaccine protection against infection. The omicron variants — BA.1, B1.1 and BA.2 — can infect those who were previously infected by other variants, even when vaccinated. And though a third booster shot offers some […]
Read MoreChina Economic Net Beijing: China and Pakistan’s cooperation in healthcare and medicines will deepen the traditional friendship between the iron brothers. Consulate General of China in Lahore, entrusted by China Charity Federation, donated 2,000 Kits of Love to children at the SOS Children’s Village in Lahore on December 25, 2021, which includes medical surgical masks, […]
Read MoreA natural product from the dried root of a pea-family plant, potentially combined with an enzyme inhibitor discovered in the laboratory of Professor Bruce Hammock at the University of California, Davis, may provide hope in alleviating neuroinflammation in Parkinson’s disease, a team of researchers from Dalian Medical University, China, and UC Davis announced Feb 21 […]
Read MoreDaniel J Arbess US President Joe Biden’s recently announced goal of reducing America’s cancer death rate by half in the next 25 years, with its encouraging emphasis on early detection and prevention, sounds bold. But we can do even more to tackle the disease — and faster. That is because scientific advances over the past […]
Read MoreIn a scientific first, researchers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered fundamental mechanisms by which the hippocampus region of the brain organizes memories into sequences and how this can be used to plan future behavior. The finding may be a critical early step toward understanding memory failures in cognitive disorders such as Alzheimer’s […]
Read MoreMichael Rothman For the better part of two years, oil market volatility had at its center concerns linked to the coronavirus pandemic and, more specifically, negative impacts on global oil demand growth from isolating and containment measures. And 2020 saw the largest ever retrenchment in oil usage that eclipsed the previously worse contraction, which occurred […]
Read MoreStaff Writer Karachi: Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said this week that the PPP’s Sindh Government has revolutionised the healthcare system in the province. He said the PPP has as per it’s commitment improved the JPMC, the largest tertiary care and postgraduate health facility by setting up a 500-beded surgical complex with […]
Read MoreThe brain’s ability to clear a protein closely linked to Alzheimer’s disease is tied to our circadian cycle, according to research published today in PLOS Genetics. The research underscores the importance of healthy sleep habits in preventing the protein Amyloid-Beta 42 (AB42) from forming clumps in the brain, and opens a path to potential Alzheimer’s […]
Read MoreChris Doyle Any snapshot of the global response to COVID-19 would be characterized by vastly differing approaches and regrettably a lack of united purpose. Too often governments adopted their own approach governed by immediate self-interest. Yet more than two years into the pandemic, after endless restrictions, the like of which most of us have never […]
Read MoreIndividual aspects of poor sleep can be detrimental to heart health. But if you combine them, the risk of heart disease can increase by as much as 141 percent. That’s the finding of a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports. The University of South Florida-led study reviewed sleep data of 6,820 U.S. adults […]
Read MoreNewswire Tokyo: Princess Yoko, the younger daughter of the late Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, a cousin of former Emperor Akihito, complained of a sore throat this week and tested positive for the virus, the Imperial Household Agency said. She was admitted to a hospital inside the Imperial Palace. Her sister, Princess Akiko, 40, will also […]
Read MoreAfter more than a century of study, the significance of brain waves — the coordinated, rhythmic electrical activity of groups of brain cells — is still not fully known. An especially underappreciated aspect of the phenomenon is that waves spatially propagate, or “travel,” through brain regions over time. A new study by researchers at The […]
Read MoreDr Mohamed Ramady Public awareness of and demand for a better health service are contributing factors to improved healthcare, especially in the era of social media criticisms of the shortcomings of public health. For health practitioners, the adoption of technology can be a blessing in disguise. In times when the delivery of healthcare is under […]
Read MoreDr Theodore karasik Issues related to the aftermath of COVID-19 are tricky because of the many variables determining the speed of the planet’s recovery from the pandemic. The unknowns surrounding the full impact of the global public health emergency, such as on so-called lost generations and the brain drain, are damaging as we try to […]
Read MoreSuvendrini Kakuchi Tokyo: On January 1 at a shrine in the leafy suburb of Asagaya in west Tokyo, Michiko Kubo and her husband, each wearing two face masks, joined a long line of worshippers all standing a metre apart to welcome 2022. “Last year we stayed at home following official guidelines to avoid crowded places. […]
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