3+ day, 8+ hour ago   (207+ words) Health, research and hospital leadership experts attend event Samaa TV health and education reporter Hamid ur Rehman has been named the 'Outstanding Health Journalist' at the third National Health Awards. The awards ceremony was held at the Karachi Expo Centre,…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (210+ words) Technique likely to help embryologists Researcher Hafsa Gulzar has contributed to a scientific breakthrough in Poland that uses holotomography to create three-dimensional images of living egg cells, a development researchers say could improve the selection of oocytes used in in…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (403+ words) Millions of children missed in vaccination campaign At least 1,002 children have died from measles in Bangladesh since an outbreak began in March, health officials said, as the country grapples with what the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (340+ words) Nearly one-third of world exposed to secondhand smoke in 2023: study Secondhand smoke exposure killed around 1.66 million people worldwide in 2023, while more than 2.71 billion people were exposed to harmful tobacco smoke from others, according to a global study published in The…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (316+ words) Increase to take effect from next anti-polio campaign, recognising efforts of frontline workers By: Tikka Khan Sani The Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme has announced a 28% increase in the daily compensation of frontline polio workers, with the revised rate set to…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1090+ words) A shingles vaccine may offer benefits beyond preventing the painful viral infection, with a new study finding that people who received the recombinant shingles vaccine had a 9% lower overall burden of cardiovascular disease over seven years compared with those who…...

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (286+ words) GLP-1 medications used to treat obesity and type 2 diabetes, including Wegovy and Ozempic, may be associated with a slightly higher risk of hair loss in men who are genetically predisposed to the condition, according to a new study. Researchers at…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (612+ words) Growing older may change the number on your birth certificate As the years pass, a person's age inevitably changes. But does reaching a certain number automatically make someone “old”? And when does a person actually begin to feel like a…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (257+ words) Nurse Razia Noreen to receive Tamgha-e-Khidmat, Rs10m award on March 23 Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has paid homage to nurse Razia Noreen for saving a baby during the tragic fire at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims). The prime minister held…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1227+ words) Lung cancer is one of the most common types of cancer worldwide, but several misconceptions about the disease continue to persist. One common misconception is that lung cancer affects only smokers, while another suggests that a diagnosis of the disease…...