Tag: Disease
Exercise can help ward off bone disease in teens
Teenagers have been urged to play sports or run for at least three hours a week to counteract the potential damage to their bone...
Childhood trauma can bring on heart disease
The effect of trauma in infancy and early childhood can saddle one with mental disorders and heart disease later in life, says a new...
Let’s guard ourselves against Naegleria
Commissioner Hyderabad Ahmed Bux Narejo while taking notice of the emergence of Naegleria disease, which claimed the deaths of ten persons in Karachi has...
Rare fatal disease takes three more lives in Karachi
The little known fatal disease Naegleria Fowleri or Brain-eating amoeba is taking roots in Pakistan as three more persons affected with this decease have...
Foot and mouth disease, a threat to dairy industry
In Pakistan, livestock is regarded as an important segment of daily life as it is a main source of highly nutritive food in the...
UVAS produces low-cost FMD vaccine
The University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS) has indigenously developed low-cost vaccine for foot and mouth disease (FMD) in cattle. Talking to reporters,...
Dengue supervisor hit by blind bullet
A stray bullet hit Centre for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) supervisor Delawar Khan on Sunday.
He was on field duty to identify dengue larva...
Yosemite hiker dies after contracting rare disease
A popular lodging area in Yosemite National Park could be linked to a rare rodent-borne disease that has killed a California tourist who stayed...
Five big names who have been affected by Parkinson’s disease
“Hook” and “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” actor Bob Hoskins recently announced that he will be retiring from acting due to his Parkinson’s disease diagnosis....
Three more peacocks die of Rani Khait in Tharparkar, toll mounts...
Dreadful “Rani Khait” continued to claim lives of precious peacocks as three more died despite tall claims of wildlife department, poultry experts and provincial...
80 peacocks perish in 19 days
Over 80 rare peacocks have died from a disease known as Ranikhet in Tharparkar area. The disease has begun spreading to other areas as...
Two more peacocks die of mysterious disease
Two more peacocks died of a mysterious disease on Tuesday raising the overall death toll to 51 in one week It should be...
Mysterious disease kills over 24 peacocks in Thar
A mysterious disease had killed as many as 24 peacocks over the course of three days in the Thar desert, a TV channel reported...
Unknown disease kills 60 children in Cambodia: WHO
An unidentified disease has killed 60 young children in Cambodia in three months, the World Health Organization said Tuesday as it raced to identify...
Govt to launch Rs 265.7 million anti-dengue plan
The federal government is going launch a three-year Rs 265.7 million anti-dengue plan in 25 districts of the country to check the outbreak of...
KPK Govt to kick off anti dengue drive
Following the epidemic of Dengue fever outbreak in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, the provincial government has directed the health department to provide medical treatment of the...
Attention, smokers
Almost everyone knows that smoking causes life-threatening diseases like cancer, emphysema and heart diseases and shortens lives by ten years or more. Also that...
