The trust’s second hospital in Lahore is in the final stages of completion, where 30 thousand patients will get the facility of examination and treatment every month. Photo: File Eye diseases and their consequent total or partial blindness are major social problems in third world countries. The need to focus on this problem is because…
Mumbai: A woman working in the HR department of an Indian company recently shared on social media the reasons why most employees quit within a few months or 1 year of joining the job. According to Indian media, a woman named Bharti Pawar, who is an HR executive at Impact Infotech Pvt Ltd, shared on…
Bristol: A new study has revealed that one in five adults suffer from fatty liver disease. Fatty liver is mainly caused by alcohol and obesity and it usually affects people aged 40 to 60. However, a recent study of 40,000 24-year-olds found that 1 in 5 suffer from this disease. British researchers used data from…
The development came amid reports of ongoing Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip including Gaza City in the north, Rafah in southern Gaza and central Gaza, where more than dozen people were believed to have died in an apparent missile attack on a refugee camp on Tuesday. Video images reportedly from Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir…
Dundee: A new study suggests that people with Parkinson’s disease can make their brains work harder to keep themselves active. Research at the University of Dundee has shown that epilepsy patients can create a ‘back channel’ in their brains to help them avoid numbness (which is one of the earliest and most common symptoms of…
Pennsylvania: Many people around the world spend a lot of money on vitamin supplements, which is about 177 billion dollars globally. However, experts say that these people are just wasting money. According to media reports, Dr. Matthew Silves, vice chairman of clinical operations at Penn State Health Family in the US, said that a balanced…
A new study has revealed that people with narcissism lead happier lives than psychopaths. According to a study published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences, the higher the level of self-esteem in a person, the higher the level of happiness. The purpose of the study was to explore the relationship between happiness and the…
The UN Environment Programme’s Food Waste Index Report 2024 highlights that latest data from 2022 shows 1.05 billion tonnes of food went to waste. Some 19 per cent of food available to consumers was lost overall at retail, food service, and household levels. That is in addition to around 13 per cent of food lost in the…
New Hampshire: A study suggests that some people with schizophrenia may also suffer from a rare visual condition in which people’s faces appear horribly distorted. This condition is called prosopometamorphopsia (PMO). In this, the schizophrenic patient sees the facial features of others as distorted. According to media reports, American researchers said that people suffering from…
Experts and UN leaders exchanged views about the best ways forward, centred on this year’s theme, A Decade of Recognition, Justice, and Development: Implementation of the International Decade for People of African Descent. While the decade ends in 2024, much work remains to be done, General Assembly President Dennis Francis told the world body. To galvanize…
