Health

Islamabad, Jan 3 (Online): President Arif Alvi approved the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Bill 2022. The purpose of the bill is to repeal the Federal Medical Teaching Institute (FMTI) Act, 2021. Earlier, the President under Article 75 (1) (B) of the Constitution, sent […]

ISLAMABAD, JAN 03 (Online): National Institute of Health (NIH) has issued a clarification that no case of Omicron’s sub-variant BF.7 is detected in Pakistan so far. According to the spokesperson of NIH, since its appearance, a total of 29 cases of XBB (Omicron) have been […]

MIRPUR (AJK): Jan 03 (APP) :Azad Kashmir Government has strictly prohibited corporal punishment in educational institutions. The government, at the same time, also imposed a strict ban on smoking in public places in the liberated territory. An official notification issued by the AJK government said […]

Brussels, Jan 3 (AFP/APP): An “overwhelming majority” of the EU’s 27 member countries want passengers coming from China to be systematically tested for Covid before departure, the European Commission said on Tuesday. The consensus recommendation emerged from a meeting of EU health ministry officials held […]

Hong Kong, Dec 13 (AFP/APP):Hong Kong announced Tuesday it would no longer require residents to use a scanning app to enter venues and that overseas arrivals could now visit bars and restaurants from the moment they land in a further easing of Covid restrictions. But […]

ISLAMABAD, Dec 12 (APP): Maroof International Hospital (MIH) has continued its breast cancer awareness campaign to educate people about the prevention and treatment aspects of the disease. According to a spokesperson, during the breast cancer awareness campaign, started this year in October, many awareness events […]

Geneva, Dec 9 (SPA/APP): The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, represented by the Ministry of Health, has participated in the third meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) of the World Health Organization (WHO) to discuss a preliminary draft of a legally binding agreement that aims […]

Norwich, Dec 9 (Online): Professional footballers are more likely to develop poorer brain health by the age of 65 than non-players, a study has shown. The University of East Anglia monitored more than 75 former elite players and a group of active non-footballers. Lead researcher […]

ISLAMABAD, Dec 06 (APP): Over 13.5 million children under-five years in 36 districts have been immunized with anti-polio drops during the third Sub-National Immunization Days campaign of the current year 2022. The campaign covered nine districts of Punjab, eight districts of Sindh, six districts of […]

Geneva, Dec 6 (AFP/APP): Negotiators are meeting in Geneva this week to thrash out a pandemic treaty aimed at ensuring the flaws that turned Covid-19 into a global crisis could never happen again. As the third anniversary of the virus emerging rolls around, negotiators are […]