Medical myths: All about dementia

ISLAMABAD, Dec 13 (ONLINE):Due to the fact that the average lifespan of people in the U.S. has increased over recent decades, some experts project that by 2050, the number of older adults with dementia could reach 13.8 millionTrusted Source. Figures of this stature spark justifiable […]

80 years since daring ‘cockleshell’ raid on Nazi ships in France

Le VerdonsurMer, France, Dec 2 (AFP/APP): France marks next week the 80th anniversary of a daring World War II raid by British Royal Marines, who slipped past German patrols up the Gironde estuary to mine crucial supply ships. Dubbed “The Cockleshell Heroes” in a 1950s […]

Enrollment of street children: A distant dream in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Working against the time, Asad Khan, hardly a 12-year-old mechanic, was busy like a honeybee repairing water geysers, batteries, heaters and other electric appliances scattered all around him in his small workshop to meet the placed orders in wake of declining mercury levels in Peshawar. […]

‘Open your soul’: Ukraine refugee stories on stage in Warsaw

Warsaw, Nov 27 (AFP/APP):As a refugee herself, Anna Lysenko finds it cathartic to be playing the character of a Ukrainian woman forced to flee her homeland in a new production in Warsaw. “You open your soul. Those emotions, the pain that is in you, you […]

Can AFib cause heart failure?

ISLAMABAD, 26 Nov. (Online): Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is a condition that causes the heart to beat rapidly and irregularly. This can lead to heart failure, which develops when the heart is not pumping blood efficiently around the body properly. AFib is the most commonTrusted Source […]

How one beheading 50 years ago led France to end death penalty

Paris, Nov 26 (AFP/APP):On a biting cold morning on November 28, 1972, a Frenchman was guillotined for a murder he did not commit, in a case that so traumatised his lawyer he would spend the rest of his life campaigning to end the death penalty. […]