Health

News Desk  Lahore: A sharp surge in cardiac emergencies in the provincial capital has placed unprecedented strain on the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC), with nearly 283,000 patients seeking emergency care over the past eight…

News Desk  Rawalpindi: The Al-Shifa Trust Eye Hospital has raised concerns over a growing risk of blindness among Pakistan’s premature infants, highlighting Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) as a critical health issue.  Around one…

News Desk  Islamabad: Declaring diabetes, HIV, Hepatitis C, neonatal mortality and malnutrition as national health emergencies, the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on National Health Services directed the government to shift focus…

News Desk  Islamabad: A mysterious illness has claimed four lives in a remote village of Sindh, prompting urgent intervention from health authorities as fear grips the local community. The fatalities occurred in the village of Atta…

News Desk  Islamabad: The Standing Committee on National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination (NHSR&C) has raised serious concerns over multiple deficiencies in Pakistan’s health sector, highlighting alarming gaps in HIV…

AFP/APP  Paris: The recent death of James Van Der Beek has once again drawn attention to a troubling trend: colorectal cancer is rising among people under 50, and experts are still unsure why. The former Dawson’s Creek star died last…

News Desk  Islamabad:  A new study has revealed one of the clearest pictures yet of how space travel physically alters the human brain, finding that astronauts’ brains shift upward and backward — and even deform — inside the skull after…

News Desk  Islamabad: Pakistan has reported its second death linked to mpox after a 53-year-old man from Faisalabad died while under treatment at the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), health officials confirmed on Tuesday.…

News Desk  Dhaka: Bangladesh has recorded its first death from the Nipah virus in 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed, local media reported on Sunday. The victim was a woman aged between 40 and 50 from northern…

News Desk Rawalpindi: The District Health Authority (DHA), Rawalpindi, has successfully vaccinated 914,092 children during the ongoing February 2026 National Immunization Days (NID) campaign, achieving 92 percent of the district’s…