Better care could have saved 45 babies: UK maternity probe
London: Forty-five babies who died at two British hospitals might have survived if their care had been better, the author...
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Pakistan-China enjoy broad space of cooperation in TCM, Unani Tibb: Experts
Beijing: Expert Advisory Panel on Traditional Medicine, World Health Organization (WHO) and Co-Director of Sino-Pakistan Cooperation Center on TCM (SPCCTCM),...
New equipment at SIUT Hospital in Karachi to benefit renal patients
Karachi: As part of a concerted effort to strengthen the delivery of health services in Sindh Province in Pakistan, UNHCR,...
Italy recalls salmon sandwiches over Listeria fears
Rome: Italy's health ministry has recalled salmon and mayonnaise sandwiches due to Listeria concerns, days after frankfurter sausages were withdrawn...
MSF China delegation briefs Pakistani Senate chief about organization’s services in health sector
Islamabad: A delegation of Medicines San Frontier (MSF) or Doctors Without Borders lead by Xu Weibing, Head of Mission MSF...
Covid: Italy set to drop mask obligation on public transport
Rome: Italy's obligation to wear masks on board public transport expires on Friday 30 September and - barring a last-minute...
United States, Pakistan partner to launch paediatric vaccination campaign
Islamabad: The US government representatives and Government of Pakistan health officials on Monday visited a vaccination center in Islamabad to...
Pakistan to use Chinese and other Covid vaccines to vaccinate children
China Economic Net Islamabad: Pakistan’s National Institute of Health (NIH) will use Chinese and other Covid vaccines to vaccinate children...
Cabinet quashes health ministry’s summary on price hike of 10 medicines
Islamabad: The federal cabinet on Tuesday rejected the summary of the Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination proposing...
Italy police use Lamborghini to transport kidney
Milan: Italy's state police were tasked with a life-saving mission when two officers used a Lamborghini Huracán to transport a...
Lurking health crisis amid stagnant floodwater major challenge : Sherry Rehman
Islamabad: Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Sherry Rehman on Wednesday said almost half of the country was submerged under...
PM terms ‘polio-free Pakistan’ a national goal
Islamabad: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday terming ‘Polio-free Pakistan’ a national goal urged the citizens to cooperate with polio...
Protection Centers besides separate wards for transgenders at PIMS underway
Islamabad: Member National Commission on Human Rights (NCHR) Manzoor Mashi on Monday said the Commission was establishing Protection Centers for...
CM Sindh launches province wide anti-polio drive
Karachi: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah on Monday launched a province-wide anti-polio campaign. He launched this campaign at...
Italy starts monkeypox vaccination campaign
Rome: Italy's vaccination campaign against monkeypox got underway on Monday with the first vaccines administered at Rome's Spallanzani hospital for...
US provides mobile lab to strengthen Pakistan’s COVID-19 testing capacity
Karachi: The United States Government on Thursday presented a mobile biosafety laboratory to Sindh Department of Health to strengthen capacity...
WHO declares rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency
United Nations: The World Health Organization (WHO), a Geneva-based UN agency, has activated its highest alert level for the growing...
Italy: Venice asking tourists to drink from water fountains instead of single use plastic bottles
Venice: Venice has launched a campaign to encourage tourists to drink from water fountains instead of using plastic bottles. In...
Chinese booster shots available across Pakistan as Covid resurfaces
Islamabad: Booster shots of Chinese vaccines are available across Pakistan as Covid has once again surfaced in the country, the...
Italy: Dying man saved with new heart, hours after hospital wedding
Rome: An Italian man dying due to complications from a heart attack married his partner in the intensive care unit...
US donates four mobile laboratories to strengthen Pakistan’s covid-19 testing
Islamabad: The U.S. government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), presented four mobile laboratories valued at $4.6 million...
Qadir inaugurates dispensary at Kohsar Complex
Islamabad: Federal Minister for Health Abdul Qadir Patel on Tuesday inaugurated the dispensary at Kohsar Complex with having a facility...
China ready to assist Pakistan in diagnosis, treatment of hepatic cystic echinococcosis
Beijing: We are willing to assist Pakistan in diagnosis and treatment of hepatic cystic echinococcosis (HCE), said Peng Xinyu, a...
On int’l day, Pakistan reiterates resolve for creating a drug free society, world
Islamabad: Pakistan on Sunday joined the international community to observe the “International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking”, reiterating...
Chinese doctors heroic saved life of a Pakistani boy
Beijing: “Thank you so much! Chinese doctors and nurses are so nice. Your efforts mean a lot to my family,”...
Bilawal Bhutto flies to Karachi to be with ailing grandmother
Islamabad: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari left for Karachi Friday due to illness of...
Italy: Man undergoes first legally approved assisted suicide
Rome: A 44-year-old man who was paralyzed from the neck down was the first to be authorized for medically assisted...
Qadir stresses for enhancing int’l cooperation to strengthen health systems
Islamabad: Federal Minister for Health Abdul Qadir Patel on Tuesday said that there is a need for enhanced international cooperation...
Italy: Almost one in four smoke
Rome: The data from the Higher Institute of Health released their report for World No- Tobacco Day indicating almost one...
China helped Pakistan nearly defeat Covid: Health Minister
Islamabad: Health Minister Abdul Qadir Patel – who has also been appointed by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif as head of...
