Health

News Desk  Mehar/Dadu: A suspected outbreak of a dangerous throat virus in Mehar, an area of interior Sindh, has claimed another young life, intensifying concerns over delayed referrals and gaps in healthcare response in the region.…

News Desk Islamabad: Reports of two new cases of the deadly Nipah virus in India have put health authorities across Asia on alert, prompting enhanced airport screening and surveillance measures to prevent cross-border spread.  In…

News Desk  London: Scientists in the United Kingdom have developed a “human lung-on-a-chip” built entirely from the stem cells of a single individual, a breakthrough that could transform how respiratory diseases are studied and treated.…

News Desk  The United States is poised to formally withdraw from the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Thursday, a move that has sparked warnings of legal violations at home and heightened risks for global health cooperation abroad.…

News Desk Lahore: The threat of monkeypox has intensified in Punjab after four new cases were confirmed in Lahore over the past 24 hours, raising concerns among health authorities. According to the Health Department, fresh cases of…

APP Muscat: A scientific study conducted at Sultan Qaboos University has revealed that several rare honey varieties produced in Oman contain exceptionally high levels of antioxidants, surpassing those found in well-known local honeys…

News Desk  Rahim Yar Khan: Doctors at Sheikh Zayed Hospital have successfully removed a rare “headless baby” from the chest of a five-year-old child in a complex surgery. The operation, performed on Monday by Dr. Sultan Owaisi,…

News Desk Islamabad: Pakistan has reported another case of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) from North Waziristan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, bringing the country’s total polio cases in 2025 to 31, health authorities confirmed on…

News Desk Karachi: In the bustling corridors of Pakistan’s hospitals, where life-and-death decisions are routine, the country’s doctors—its healers—are quietly falling ill themselves. Alarmingly high rates of burnout, chronic physical…

News Desk  Islamabad: Health experts are cautioning that the major infectious disease risks in 2026 may not come from a new virus, but from older pathogens that are now evolving to become more potent. According to specialists, climate…