Capital Administration and Development Division (CA&DD) Deputy Director Minhaj Siraj on Saturday said that the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) is all set to open its cessation clinic in the first week of June.Addressing a press conference, he said that the district administration has approved the request of the CA&DD in declaring all mega-social [...]
Highlighting the alarming number of deaths tobacco use causes every year, health experts demanded the government to raise taxes on tobacco and its products in the upcoming budget 2014.They were addressing a public awareness seminar organised by Shifa International Hospital (SIH) in connection with World No Tobacco Day. Every year, on 31st May, World No [...]
Dr. Sajjad Ahmed Siddiqui, Program Officer Pakistan National Forum on Womens Health (PNFWH) said about 4000 to 5000 new fistula cases are reported every year in Pakistan. He expressed these views while addressing a press conference at Karachi Press Club(KPC) in connection with World International Day to End Obstetric Fistula. The press conference was organized [...]
United States Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded scholarships to 102 students enrolled in Associated Diploma in Education (ADE) and Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) (Hons) programmes in Sindh as part of the $165 million Pakistan Reading Project. USAID provincial Director for Sindh and Balochistan Leon S Waskin also acting US Consul General for Sindh attended [...]
New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) shows that children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes have a less balanced composition of gut bacteria compared with children of the same age without diabetes. The research is by Dr Marcus de Goffau and Dr Hermie Harmsen, University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands, [...]
The Sindh University has launched its comprehensive health care facility (Mini Hospital) for women & children; which has started operational activities after it was inaugurated by the vice-chancellor Prof. Dr. Nazir A. Mughal & Divisional Commissioner Hyderabad Jamal Mustafa Syed here on Friday. The keys of ambulance provided by the university were also handed over [...]
UNFPA - the United Nations Population Fund together with the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), WHO and partners reveals that major deficits in the midwifery workforce occur in 73 countries where these services are most desperately needed. The report recommends new strategies to address these deficits and save millions of lives of women and newborns. [...]
New WHO report provides the most comprehensive picture of antibiotic resistance to date, with data from 114 countries A new report by WHO–its first to look at antimicrobial resistance, including antibiotic resistance, globally–reveals that this serious threat is no longer a prediction for the future, it is happening right now in every region of the world and has the potential [...]
