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Dr Rana Jawad AsgharDaily Times |
As a disease detective, the danger of the next pandemic is always on our radar. The 1918 flu pandemic, which killed 50 to 100 million people and...
Maryam Nawaz Sharif has been sworn in as the first female chief minister in Pakistan. This is a significant step towards gender balance in a society...
R ecently, I have been bombarded by questions from friends and colleagues asking me about a “new” virus that is apparently more dangerous than the...
T he Covid19 pandemic is not over in practical terms. Still, thousands of people are dying due to it every month, though less than before. Apart from...
P akistan has decided to hold the first Global Health Security Summit in Pakistan. This is a significant step for a developing country attempting to...
G erman Chancellor Olaf Scholz has recently announced that he is positive for Covid-19 with mild symptoms. According to Germany’s Robert Koch...
A s the election season approaches, we have started seeing different media outlets conducting political polls. We have already seen messages showing...
In the 1990s, I was a practising family physician in Lahore. In a lecture, a foreign cardiologist gave us a limit of permissible blood pressure levels...
A few weeks ago, the Punjab Department of Health suddenly issued a health advisory for a possible Nipah virus infection in Pakistan. While I was...
T wo news stories about eye health are very hot these days. One about ‘red/pink eye’ which is ravaging our country, and the other about an...