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15 08, 2018

Rotary announces $96.5m to end polio

2018-09-05T20:25:01+00:00

Rotary has announced nearly 100 million dollars in grants to support the global efforts to end polio—a vaccine preventable disease that once paralyzed hundreds of thousands of children every in a year. The announcement comes as Nigeria marks two years without any reported cases of wild poliovirus, following four reported cases in 2016, said press [...]

15 09, 2014

The Bloody Assassin – EBOLA VIRUS

2017-04-26T12:34:59+00:00

By Muneeba Azmat, Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad Ebola virus disease or Ebola hemorrhagic fever is a lethal infectious disease that has become the topic of many tabloids and papers after the March 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. The outbreak that was first reported from Guinea, has now spread to Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria and [...]

15 05, 2012

Reduction of Preterm Births Can Ensure that Pregnancies go to Full Term

2012-07-01T15:46:42+00:00

      With 750,000 Preterm Babies Born in the country, Pakistan has fourth highest number of preterm births in the world   Every year some 15 million babies in the world are born too early. More than one million of those babies die shortly after birth; countless others suffer some type of lifelong physical, [...]