Health

London, July 18 (AFP/APP):Haleon, the consumer healthcare unit spun off by British drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline, was worth around £31 billion ($36 billion) when it began trading in London on Monday. The new company — which owns brands including Sensodyne toothpaste, pain relief drug Panadol and […]

London, July 16 (AFP/APP): British drugs giant GlaxoSmithKline on Monday demerges its newly-named consumer healthcare unit Haleon, resulting in what is set to be London’s largest new stock market listing in more than a decade. The new company — owning brands including Sensodyne toothpaste, pain […]

ISLAMABAD, July 07 (Online): Kidney diseases occur when kidneys lose the ability to filter waste from the blood. The number of Indians who suffer from chronic kidney ailments has doubled in the past decade; about 8 to 10% of the adult population suffers from some […]

ISLAMABAD, July 7 (ONLINE): Dena Ressler, a New Jersey-based retiree in her 60s, had a “splitting headache” that lasted 3 months. It came with a cough and shortness of breath. After serious medical conditions were ruled out, it was found that her headache was stress-related. […]

FAISALABAD, Jul 06 (APP): Over 8.46 million (8,468,938) people have so far been vaccinated against COVID-19 in the district. District Health Officer Dr Ataul Mun’im said on Wednesday that 4,643,666 citizens were injected first dose while 3,741,338 were administered the second dose of vaccine. He […]

Islamabad, July 6 (Online): The U.S. government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), presented four mobile laboratories valued at $4.6 million to Pakistan’s National Institute of Health to strengthen Pakistan’s capacity to diagnose COVID-19 and other communicable diseases. The state-of-the-art facilities will improve […]

SINGAPORE, July 6 (Xinhua) APP):Singapore reported 9,989 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday, bringing the total tally to 1,495,953. Of the new cases, 837 cases were detected through PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests and 9,152 through ART (antigen rapid test) tests, according to statistics released […]

SHANGHAI, July 6 (Xinhua/APP): China’s Shanghai reported nine confirmed locally transmitted COVID-19 cases and 15 local asymptomatic carriers on Tuesday, the municipal health commission said Wednesday. All new infections were found from people under quarantine, the commission said in a statement. SHANGHAI, July 6 (Xinhua/APP): […]

GABORONE, July 6 (Xinhua) APP):Botswana is now offering COVID-19 booster shots for children aged between 12 and 17 years, the health ministry has announced. “These children become eligible for booster doses at least six months after completing their primary vaccination series,” health ministry spokesman Christopher […]

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 05 (APP): Nearly a third of all women in developing countries start having children at the age of 19 or younger, and nearly half of first births to adolescents, are to children or girls aged 17 or under, a new research released […]