Tag: Medicine
Strike, deaths, more suspensions and still no one to shoulder...
Federal Investigation Agency arrested the medical superintendent of Punjab Institute of Cardiology on Sunday in the PIC ‘mystery’ drug debacle. Chief Minister Shahaz Sharif...
YDA announces strike against suspension of senior doctors in PIC scam
Young Doctors Association (YDA) has announced to observe strike against suspension and transfer of senior doctors in the alleged medicines reaction death scam.
According to...
Govt notifies removal of ex-DG health
The Punjab government on Sunday issued notification of the removal of former Director General Health Chaudhry Aslam in the wake of uncontrolled deaths caused...
‘Central drug watchdog needed to avert another PIC-like fiasco’
The Pharma Bureau has urged the government to immediately form an independent central drug regulatory authority (DRA), adopting the refined model employed in other...
Govt’s laid back attitude did it: Pharma Bureau
Pharma Bureau, the representative body of multinational pharmaceutical manufacturers, has urged the government immediately set up an autonomous Federal Drug Regulatory Authority (FDRA) to...
Death submerses Lahore, again
A chorus of grief rose from the narrow backstreets of Lahore, where members of the Hussain family were saying a last goodbye to a...
Medicine markets deserted!
The issue of substandard medicines in Lahore has terrorised the masses in the most-populated city of the country where, according to medicine traders, the...
Senators absolve Punjab government of blame in spurious drugs chaos
Treasury and opposition members of the Senate on Friday absolved the Punjab government of any blame in the deaths caused by spurious drugs in...
‘My mother is going to die!’
Her entire family was alarmed a few weeks ago when Irshad Bibi, an 85-year-old heart patient developed dark spots all over her body. Soon...
TIME TO PUSH THE PANIC BUTTON
With 60 deaths still to be accounted for, the Punjab government has decided to send the drug and blood samples to laboratories abroad to...
PIC-brewed poison kills 12 more
Twelve more people including women died of the ‘mysterious’ reaction being produced by a medicine provided to the heart patients by the Punjab Institute...
10 die due to PIC medicine reaction
At least 10 cardiac patients died due to reaction from medicines provided by the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) Lahore, a private TV channel...
Omission of forensic medicine from MBBS curriculum raises alarm
Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) Lahore and Pakistan Society of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology (PSFMT) held an emergency meeting at PMA House on Wednesday, chaired...
Supply of substandard medicine on the rise
Taking notice of substandard medicine being sold at the federal capital’s drug stores, the chief commissioner Islamabad on Thursday directed concerned drug inspectors to...
Trio wins Nobel Medicine Prize for immune system research
Three scientists shared the Nobel Medicine Prize Monday for their ground-breaking work on the immune system which the jury said opened up new prospects...
Oral steroids cause vitamin-D deficiency
People on oral steroids are likely to suffer from severe vitamin-D deficiency two times as compared to the general populace, says new research.
The study...
Daily aspirin tied to risk of vision loss
Seniors who take aspirin daily are likely to have a late-stage macular degeneration, an age-related loss of vision, two times more than the people...
