Washington: American researchers have found in a recent study that most of the doctors promoting a particular drug on social media platform X have received compensation from the companies. According to media reports, the study published in the journal ‘JAMA’ has been jointly conducted by researchers from several American medical institutions. The team identified drugs…
Tokyo: A new study has revealed that hospitalized women are less likely to die when their doctor is also a woman. According to media reports, the study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, included treating physicians and patients age 65 and older. The study found that 8.15 percent of women aged 65 and over…
London: Experts have issued a warning about vitamin D after the death of a citizen in the UK due to excess calcium in the blood. According to media reports, 89-year-old British citizen David Michener has died due to hypercalcemia. Hypercalcemia is a condition in which taking too much vitamin D increases the level of calcium…
—File photo Government doctors will no longer get leave for conferences and seminars abroad, a circular has been issued in this regard. According to the ongoing circular of the Ministry of Health, government doctors have been banned from going abroad at the expense of pharma companies and donors. Health Ministry officials say the decision is…
“Life is very difficult here,” hospital manager Dr. Haidar Al-Qudra told UN News. Currently, only 12 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are “partially functioning”, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), with the rest destroyed by Israel’s near constant bombardment of the enclave. As the war in Gaza enters its fifth month, Israeli forces continue to…
Tokyo: A healthy diet is essential for a healthy body. However, many people often prioritize foods that taste better or are more convenient and overlook the nutritional value of each food. Although many researches about healthy foods or diet have come to the fore and more researches are going on in this regard, but experts…
Boston, USA: There is a specific type of diabetes that few people know about and many doctors misdiagnose it, which worsens the disease. This type of diabetes is called LADA or type 1.5 diabetes. In adult-onset autoimmune diabetes (LADA), immune cells attack and destroy insulin-producing cells. This type of diabetes shares genetic, immunologic, and metabolic…
London: Scientists have created an artificial intelligence software to examine X-rays that can make the same diagnosis as doctors. In a joint study by the University of Warwick and King’s College London, scientists tested artificial intelligence software on millions of old X-rays and found that the results were correct 94 percent (94 out of 100)…
—File photo The strike by the Young Doctors Association in favor of their demands continues for the second day. OPDs are being boycotted by Young Doctors in Allied Hospital, Ghulam Mohammadabad and General Hospitals in Sumanabad. Young doctors say that the strike will continue until the arrest of the killers of Dr. Zeeshan Anwar. The…
Priorities include transporting fuel to the north of the war-torn enclave, so that it can be used to power hospitals, provide clean water and maintain other vital civilian infrastructure. Such services have been massively impacted by weeks of Israeli bombardment in response to Hamas’s 7 October massacres in southern Israel that left some 1,200 dead…
