Fresh polio drive to reach 13.5m children
Islamabad: The third Sub-National Immunization Days (SNIDs) campaign of the current year 2022 will launch on Monday to vaccinate 13.5...
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Beijing reminds citizens not to go out amid surge in Covid-19 infections
Beijing: Beijing health authorities stated on Monday to further strengthen epidemic prevention and control measures and reminded residents not to...
China’s optimized COVID-19 response measures based on practical experience, data: health official
Beijing: A Chinese health official said that the 20 newly released measures on epidemic prevention and control were well conceived...
Abdul Qadir Patel meets UNAIDS Country Director for Pakistan
Islamabad: Federal Minister for National Health Services, Regulations, and Coordination Abdul Qadir Patel on Saturday said the government was utilizing...
China donates 100,000 Hepatitis-A vaccine doses to Pakistan
Islamabad: People’s Republic of China on Wednesday donated 100,000 vaccine doses of Hepatitis-A to Pakistan. Federal Minister for National Health...
Chinese company Sinovac to invest $ 200 million in Punjab
Lahore: Chinese company Sinovac will invest US $ 200 million (about Pakistani Rs 45 billion) in Punjab by setting up...
Youngsters trend for ‘Nicotine addiction’ becoming ‘health catastrophe’: experts warned
Islamabad: Health experts on Sunday stressed the need for educating society about the negative effects of tobacco use as E-cigarettes...
Italy: Weight loss secrets, the man who built a plane and more
Rome: In travel news this week, the Italian village whose residents boast of a "fat-killing gene," the man who built...
China-Pakistan Health Corridor to bring changes in health sector
Beijing: China-Pakistan Health Corridor (CPHC) will provide a platform that can bring changes in the health sector of Pakistan. Working...
Bilawal Bhutto condemns firing at polio team in Chaman
Karachi: Chairman of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Friday vehemently condemned an incident of firing...
Bilawal Bhutto condemns attack on the polio team in Pashin
Islamabad: Chairman Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has strongly condemned the attack on the polio...
Over 0.4 mln children to get anti-polio drops: DC
Islamabad: Over 400,000 children under the age of five would receive anti-polio drops during the week-long drive commenced on the...
Italy: The village with the ‘elixir’ of healthy life
Rome: It's a place of terraced lemon groves, a paradoxically warm mountain breeze, and a powerful fat-killing gene carried by...
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...
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...
