Health

MQM-P steps up campaign for creation of new provinces

• In Hyderabad rally, Khalid Maqbool says his party has not rowed back on its demand for separate province to be carved out from Sindh • Existing administrative system has failed to address governance needs of growing population, Kamal…

‘Arrest me or let me go’: In video, Sonam Wangchuk’s face-off with cops at Safdarjung Hospital

Chickenpox sweeps Gaza camps as thousands of cases emerge in two weeks

Doctors say the real scale of the outbreak is likely far larger, as overcrowding makes isolation impossible, and families of six or more share tents of a few square metres. Thousands of children born during the war could not complete their…

Family demands legal review after Indian-origin medical student’s suicide

6-year-old boy drowns in water-filled pit in Greater Noida; contractor held

Tragedy struck in Greater Noida on Saturday as a six-year-old child drowned in an abandoned pit filled with water. Despite swift efforts to rush him to a nearby hospital, doctors confirmed the child's death upon arrival. Authorities have…

Bantayan hospital now offers surgical procedures

LAPU-LAPU CITY, Cebu — The Bantayan District Hospital is now equipped to offer some surgical procedures after the provincial government upgraded its operating room with new medical equipment. The upgrade allows the island hospital to…

Kunal Kemmu lost 9 kg in a year with weekly 24-hour water fasts. Should you try it?

20 Years After Its Own Outbreak, an Ugandan Town Beats Back Ebola

The Bundibugyo Ebola virus takes its name from this small town, where it was first discovered in 2007. Now, the species has returned to eastern Congo, halting life on a busy border.

Two injured as ambulance attacked in Balochistan's Musakhel

QUETTA: Two people were injured after unidentified attackers opened fire on an ambulance carrying a body in the Darg tehsil of Balochistan’s Musakhel district, officials and local sources said on Saturday. According to sources, the two…

Ebola cases in DR Congo surpass 3,000 - as health workers go on strike

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has recorded more than 3,000 confirmed cases of Ebola, as it continues to battle the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease in history.

Rare medical condition causes Chinese man’s scalp to thicken and fold, resembling human brain

A man from central China had long been troubled by a thickening scalp that developed folds resembling the creases of a brain, but he eventually found a plastic surgeon who could address his condition. The 23-year-old man from Hunan…

Cabinet panel approves prices of 52 life-saving medicines

ISLAMABAD: A sub-committee of the federal cabinet, headed by Fin­ance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb, has approved the prices of 52 life-saving drugs, prompting Health Minister Mustafa Kamal to say that patients would finally have access to…