Tag: Heart

‘Timely treatment can save children born with heart disease’

Early diagnosis and timely treatment can markedly improve the chances of survival of the children born with congenital heart disease, consultant paediatric and cardiologist...

‘Your craft should always touch your own heart’

The 1981 movie Umrao Jaan Ada, which helped give Rekha one of her most marked performances in her lifetime, is still remembered as a...

World Heart Day observed

Every year nearly 17 million people from across the globe die of cardiovascular diseases, with 82 percent of deaths occurring in low and middle...

Heart transplant still a dream

Heart transplant in patients with advanced cardiac diseases is still a dream in Pakistan despite availability of the medical expertise, technological equipment, drugs and...

They do have a heart! Cops donate a day’s salary to...

Personnel of the Sindh Police would donate one day’s salary to the prime minister’s relief fund for the rehabilitation of the flood affected people...

Regular checkup a must to avoid heart attacks

One of the leading causes of death among adults in this part of the world where we live is heart diseases which are the...

Rotary sponsors poor children with congenital heart disease

Rotary International is providing support to poor and deserving children in Pakistan and India who are suffering from congenital heart disease. As part of...

My heart bleeds to play for Pakistan: Afridi

On the same day when Waqar Younis quit as the national coach, Shahid Afridi, the former Pakistan captain who had retired conditionally, said he...

Libya rebels surge into the heart of Tripoli

Libyan rebels were in the heart of Tripoli on Monday after surging into the capital in a final drive to oust Muammer Gaddafi, seizing...

The Children’s Heart Hospital & Research Institute

After completion of preliminary preparations, the Children’s Heart Hospital and Research Institute is now in the pipeline, Pakistan Today has learnt. It will be...

Then and now: a change of heart

The change of hearts and minds of the PPP and the PML-N leadership vis-à-vis the army in the last three years is evident from...

Springsteen sideman Clemons suffers stroke

Clarence Clemons, the saxophone player in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, has suffered a stroke, according to a pair of media reports on Monday....

Still young at heart, Pagara enjoying stay at AKUH

Pakistan Muslim League Functional (PML-F) leader Pir Pagara is so impressed by the “beautiful people” surrounding him at the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH)...

SMCH surgeon conducts rare heart disease operation

Sharif Medical City Hospital (SMCH) Heart Surgery Department Head Dr Mazharur Rehman on Tuesday conducted a successful operation of a complex and rare heart...

Mubarak heart OK, health stable: Egypt state media

CAIRO - Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was hospitalised this week due to a drop in blood pressure, and his condition is stable, state media reported late Saturday.
Mubarak, who is suspected of involvement in the deaths of anti-regime protesters, was previously reported to have suffered a heart attack during questioning by prosecutors on Tuesday.
But the MENA state news agency reported that the 82-year-old had suffered from a "steep decline in blood pressure" at the

Mubarak has heart problems in questioning

CAIRO - Hosni Mubarak was in hospital after suffering heart problems under questioning, following protests by hard-core reformists who said he was being protected from prosecution by Egypt's military rulers.
The former Egyptian president fell ill on Tuesday during an inquiry into the killing of protesters in a revolution that toppled him and into corruption in his administration.
Egypt's generals, in charge since Mubarak quit on Feb. 11, have faced increasingly loud calls

CAT WITH A HEART

PLYMOUTH - This cat has become a heart-throb after people noticed she bore a unique marking on her side - a perfect heart.