HEALTH

Sudan’s gold rush wreaks havoc on health

BANAT – Sudanese mother Awadya Ahmed has long wondered why her youngest child Talab was born blind and unable to walk; now she suspects the piles of poisonous waste left Read More

Covid air war being lost, experts warn

The world is still not using one of its most effective weapons against Covid – properly ventilating public spaces – more than two years into the pandemic, experts warn. At Read More

Mask up: Fresh COVID-19 cases in Pakistan crosses 500-mark for first time in three months

Pakistan’s daily COVID-19 case count has crossed the 500-mark for the first time in three months amid a constant rise in recent countrywide spread of the disease, National Institute of Read More

WHO says monkeypox is not yet a health emergency

Monkeypox is not yet a global health emergency, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has ruled, although WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was deeply concerned about the outbreak. “I Read More

Up-gradation of special education centre for visually handicapped children started

DNA ISLAMABAD: The project “Up-gradation of National Special Education Centre for Visually Handicapped Children” is started under the administrative control of Directorate General of Special Education, Ministry of Human Rights. This project Read More

Dow University of Health Sciences launches UBT to diagnose H. Pylori

KARACHI, JUN 21 (DNA) — Dow University of Health Sciences has introduced the most effective, fastest, easiest, and cost effective diagnosis test of Helicobacter (or more commonly known as H.Read More