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15 02, 2016

PSN organises epilepsy awareness walk

2016-03-04T19:49:46+00:00

Epilepsy is a curable neurological disorder, majority of children suffering from it in Pakistan has no access to treatment facilities and education, while a large number of people consider the disease as some kind of supernatural phenomenon, these view were expressed by experts at walk organised by Pakistan Society of Neurology (PSN) to mark the [...]

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, [...]

15 04, 2011

Understanding Parkinson’s Disease

2017-04-26T12:35:30+00:00

There are an estimated 400,000 people suffering from Parkinson’s disease in Pakistan and over 6 million worldwide.  It is a chronic debilitating disease but there are treatments that can help relieve symptoms and slow its progress to help individuals live a better quality of life said experts from Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) at a [...]