Health

APPLahore: People working night shifts are significantly more likely to develop kidney stones, according to new research published by the UK’s National Kidney Foundation.The study revealed that individuals working outside the…

News DeskHyderabad: Sindh on Thursday reported its second confirmed case of mpox, according to the provincial health department.Officials said the patient, a 28-year-old man, is under treatment at a private hospital in Hyderabad…

News Desk Islamabad: Pakistan’s fight against polio has suffered a serious setback after international funding for eradication efforts was reduced by up to 20 percent, largely due to a cut in US contributions to global health…

News DeskIslamabad: Sindh Local Government Minister Saeed Ghani on Saturday announced that a province-wide vaccination campaign against cervical cancer will be launched from September 15 to 27, targeting over 4.1 million girls.…

News DeskBeijing: Older adults who play musical instruments may keep their brains sharper and process speech more efficiently than their non-musical peers, according to a new international study by researchers in Canada and China.…

News Desk Islamabad:The Islamabad district administration has confirmed 11 new dengue cases in the last 24 hours, with surveillance teams conducting 365 inspections to identify mosquito larvae across the federal capital.According to…

Asem Mustafa AwanIslamabad: A child sits alone on a woven charpai, his small frame dwarfed by the vast sheet of muddy floodwater that has swallowed his home and his world. In his eyes, there is neither complaint nor expectation — only a…

APPLahore: Leading medical experts have expressed serious concern over the alarming rise in liver cancer cases in Pakistan, describing the disease as a “silent killer” that claims thousands of lives every year.At a press conference…

Rafia Jahanzeb/APPIslamabad: In Mansehra district, where nearly 1.8 million people live, more than half of women of reproductive age suffer from malnutrition or anemia, according to health experts and local accounts. Limited health…

News Desk Rawalpindi: The District Health Authority (DHA) Rawalpindi has reported a total of 52 confirmed dengue cases so far this year—28 in Rawalpindi and 24 in Murree—while no fatalities have been recorded, according to the latest…