Source: BBC
Pakistani health officials say they have recorded a new case of polio in Swat district despite local militants pledging not to resist vaccinations.
A seven-year-old girl tested positive for polio, taking the number of new cases in Pakistan this year to 16.
Officials say Tanzeela Bibi had not received any vaccination due to the ongoing […]

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The leading Urologist of Chandka Medical College and Teaching Hospital Larkana Dr. Malak Hussain Jalbani has performed renal surgery of 50 years old patient Wazir s/o Arbab Ali Jagirani resident of Naaro District Khairpur Mirus Sindh and removed heaviest kidney […]

Source: Asia Pulse
Pakistan is making all-out efforts for the protection of Ozone Layer and has, so far, implemented 32 projects for phasing out Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS).
Iftikhar Ahmed, Technical Expert, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and Ozone Cell, Ministry of Environment, said while talking to The Nation here on Thursday.
He said that Pakistan had agreed […]

Source: IOL
Islamabad - At least six people died as Pakistan reeled under a heatwave that sent the mercury soaring to 48°Cs in some areas, media reports said on Wednesday.
Three people, including an elderly woman, died in Khanpur in the scorching eastern province of Punjab, where the hottest temperatures were recorded, the Urdu-language Daily Express newspaper […]

The Robert L. Capp collection at the Hoover Institution Archives contains ten never-before-published photographs illustrating the immediate aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing. These photographs, taken by an unknown Japanese photographer, were found in 1945 among rolls of undeveloped film in a cave outside Hiroshima by U.S. serviceman Robert L. Capp, who was attached to the […]

Source: New Kerala.com
Children below 18 who can’t directly buy cigarettes off the shelf, throng the ‘Shisha Houses’ spread across Islamabad to have a puff or two.
‘Shisha’ means “flavoured water pipe smoking”.
Sale of cigarettes or other tobacco items to youngsters below 18 is banned in Pakistan Various ‘Shisha’ outlets openly violating the state laws that bar […]

Source: Bloomberg
By Jason Gale
Almost half the population of Pakistan, the world’s seventh-most-populous nation, faces difficulty gaining access to affordable food because of the soaring cost of cereals, a World Food Program official said.
The Rome-based United Nations agency increased its estimate of the number of so-called food insecure people in Pakistan to 77 million from 60 […]

Source: Reuters
By Stephanie Nebehay
GENEVA (Reuters) - At least three brothers in Pakistan were infected with the bird flu virus last year, and some human-to-human spread likely occurred, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.
But the United Nations agency said the deadly disease had not gone beyond the family cluster near Peshawar, suggesting “limited human […]

Source: Home News Tribune
By RITU JHA
STAFF WRITER
rjha@thnt.com
ISELIN — The New Jersey chapter of the Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America will hold its spring meeting and senior day dinner on Sunday at the Woodbridge Hilton.
Dr. Shahida Abbas, chairman of the organization’s women’s forum, said the event is aimed at teaching young people […]

by Jasmine Rafique
If two scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are correct, people will still be driving gasoline-powered cars 50 years from now, churning out heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — and yet that carbon dioxide will not contribute to global warming.
In a proposal by two scientists, vehicle emissions would no longer contribute […]

Source: Dawn
While poultry farmers and officials concerned in the Sindh and Karachi city governments are waiting for test reports pertaining to the recent large-scale deaths of birds, a surveillance team on bird flu collected samples from another farm in Gadap Town on Thursday.
Sources in the poultry industry claimed that samples were drawn on Thursday from […]

A strange incident took place when, at Allama Iqbal Medical College hostel’s mess, a fried frog was seen in egg fried rice given to a student. MBBS students have protested for that.

Source: Dawn
US authorities have threatened Pakistan’s most respected citizen Abdul Sattar Edhi with deportation, he said.
“I just received a telephone call from someone, telling me that I am being deported,” Mr Edhi, who is now in New York told Dawn.
He said he was stopped at the airport in London when he tried to board a […]

Source: Dawn
Op-Ed by Shahzad Roy
When I was 10 years old, I saw on the nine o’clock news on PTV a woman with a dupatta draped round her head saying, “Pakistan tareekh kay aik naazuk mor say guzar raha hai.” Then I turned 20 and again saw a woman, this time not wearing a dupatta on […]

Source: The News International
THE government has taken itself to a point where its top functionaries are criticised by people even for performing deeds for the good of the public. No one but government has itself to blame in this regard.
One example of this is when Punjab Caretaker Chief Minister Ijaz Nisar inaugurated a three-day anti-polio […]

Source: Dawn
By Faiza Ilyas
Far from the crowded eateries and bustling kitchens of the city of lights, a scene from a nightmare is played out: at an isolated spot near the beach in Bin Qasim Town, the air is heavy with the stench of decaying flesh as two tankers arrive loaded with the blood of slaughtered […]

I am a Pakistani-American doctor and have been viewing a news item being broadcast by ARY digital TV network today (4 Jan, 2008) stating that according to Pakistan Peoples Party’s leader Senator Dr. Babar Awan, late Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto was fired upon by some sort of an highly sophisticated weapon capable of dispersing electromagnetic radiation, […]

Source: Boston.com (By John Donnelly)
WASHINGTON - In a finding that could save thousands of children’s lives every year, a study published today says that children suffering from pneumonia in developing countries could be treated as effectively at home as in hospitals.

Source: AFP
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s health ministry said it was still investigating whether there was human transmission in the country’s first death from bird flu.
It said initials tests by the World Health Organisation (WHO), which sent a team here last week, had ruled it out but that Pakistan had sent samples to Geneva — the WHO’s […]

Source: Associated Press
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Limited human-to-human bird flu transmission may have occurred in Pakistan, but no new infections have been reported for two weeks and there appears to be no threat of further spread, a top World Health Organization official said.

Source: Reuters
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan is urging provincial authorities to obey health guidelines to stop any bird flu outbreaks after fears lapses in poultry culling methods led to eight people being infected with the H5N1 virus.

Source: Herald Tribune
International health experts have been dispatched to Pakistan to help investigate the cause of South Asia’s first human bird flu cases and determine if the virus was transmitted from person to person, an official and local media said Sunday.
Pakistan’s Health Ministry said Saturday six people last month had tested positive for the H5N1 […]