Breast cancer is still the leading cause of cancer deaths in Pakistan. Photo: File Islamabad: For the first time, the National Cancer Registry under the National Institutes of Health (NIH). A comprehensive report based on data and statistics has been released. According to the report, 269,707 cancer cases were examined in the country between 2015…
File photo The Islamabad Healthcare Authority has written to all hospitals in the city and ordered them to provide health facilities to HIV patients. The healthcare authority has said that not all private hospitals are treating HIV positive patients, all hospitals should provide treatment to HIV patients like other patients. In the letter, the healthcare…
Mayo Hospital Lahore ran out of test kits, patients were forced to get tested from private laboratories. The laboratory of King Edward and Mayo Hospital had informed the hospital administration after not receiving the kits for 1 month. It was said in the post that the kits for urine, bladder, cholesterol, total protein and other…
Islamabad: Both monkeypox patients under treatment at Pimms Hospital have recovered. The spokesperson of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) says that the two recovered patients have been discharged from the hospital, in which one patient is 50 years old and the other patient is 19 years old. According to official data, five cases of…
This is the highest rate of mental health need ever recorded, across UNRWA’s medical system. UNRWA’s health programmes support some two million Palestine refugees across Jordan, Lebanon, the occupied Palestinian territory composed of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and Gaza, as well as in Syria. Immensely challenging year Speaking to reporters in Geneva, Dr….
Cautionary measures normally applied to any new technology are not being exercised consistently with regard to large language model (LLM) tools, which use AI for crunching data, creating content, and answering questions, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned. “Precipitous adoption of untested systems could lead to errors by healthcare workers, cause harm to patients, erode…
In Germany, a cardiologist has been arrested on suspicion of murdering patients who died from an overdose of sedatives. According to the police, the doctor is suspected of deliberately overdosing two critically ill patients. Both patients died of sedative overdose. The 55-year-old doctor, who worked at a local hospital in Berlin, was suspended in August…
—File photo Federal Ministry of Health officials have said that both the monkeypox patients in Pakistan have recovered. Officials say that the monkey pox patient under treatment at PIMS Islamabad was discharged while the monkey pox patient quarantined at home also recovered. On the other hand, infectious disease experts have said that many cases of…
The Punjab Healthcare Commission has barred private clinics from admitting monkeypox patients. The commission has directed private clinics to refer suspected monkeypox patients to designated government hospitals. The Punjab Healthcare Commission has directed the private hospitals to ensure the identification of suspected monkeypox cases. Monkeypox patients below 15 years of age should be referred to…
Seventy-one patients were taken out of the hospital safely, the cause of the fire is still unknown, media (Photo: File) Beijing: 21 patients were burnt to death in a fire at a hospital in the Chinese capital. According to Chinese media, a fire broke out at a hospital in Fengshai district of Beijing on Tuesday…
