KARACHI: “One-third of the problems presented by the patients to the doctors are directly or indirectly related to stress and anxiety,” said Family Medicine experts at an awareness session at the Jinnah Sindh Medical University (JSMU). The event was organized by the JSMU’s Institute of Family Medicine and Continued Medical Education Department to underscore the…
KARACHI: According to speakers at a panel session Wellness in the Workplace at the Aga Khan University, married women and single men under the age of 30 in Pakistan are among the groups most likely to commit suicide. The event was part of a week of sessions and themed activities aimed at spreading awareness concerning…
KARACHI: “In Pakistan, 40,000 women die each year from breast cancer. The risk of breast cancer before the age of 75 is 11.8%. Every year we are losing 101,000 people to cancer. Between the age of 40 to 49 years, a woman has a 1.52% (1 in 66) chance of developing breast cancer. Between the…
KARACHI: Principal, Dow Medical College, Prof Amjad Siraj Memon, clarified that the administration of the Dow University of Health Sciences had permitted an institution to organize a seminar to celebrate the World Contraception Day at Dow Medical College a few days ago, but the said institution violated the permission. He added that the college had…
KARACHI: World Rabies Day is a global campaign to help prevent the spread of the world’s most fatal disease and this day received a boost in Karachi on September 28, 2019, when supporters pledged to take action in their neighborhoods. World Rabies Day is being facilitated by the international charity, Global Alliance for Rabies Control,…
KARACHI: Federal Minister for Information Technology, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqi, inaugurated of the three-day Health & Pharma Asia International Exhibition & Conference 2019 at the Karachi Expo Centre. The Turkish Consul General in Karachi, Tolga Uçak, and the Consul General of Iran in Karachi, Ahmad Mohammad, were the chief guests for the occasion. On the first…
You may think that you remember important moments of your life accurately, but the truth is you can’t completely trust your memory, said speakers at the two-day Essentials of Neuroscience course at Aga Khan University. Neuroscience researchers noted that most people believe their memories are like permanent recordings whereas our recollections are often ‘revised’ in…
KARACHI: Vice-Chancellor, Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS), Prof Mohammed Saeed Quraishy, recently announced that the 5th DUHS-DICE exhibition is scheduled to be held in the mid of October 2019. The exhibition will support science and research projects from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK), Swat, Azad Kashmir, and all over Pakistan. He said this while presiding the…
KARACHI- “Unsafe injections accounted for most of the infections rampant in our society. Unsafe injection practices put patients and healthcare providers at risk of infectious and non-infectious adverse events”, said Dr Nida Hussain, Pro-Chancellor of Ziauddin University. She also stressed upon the need to educate masses regarding the hazards of unsafe injections. She was speaking…
KARACHI- Second edition of the book “Alzheimer’s Disease Caregivers Guidebook” was recently launched at a ceremony in a local hotel of Karachi, where eminent medical literature critics described the book as ‘a complete and comprehensive guide for caregivers managing Alzheimer’s patients’. The book launching ceremony was organized by Alzheimer’s Pakistan Rawalpindi Chapter (APRC) in collaboration…
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