Category Archives: Health & Fitness

By Majed Akhter

THE recently concluded strike of the Young Doctors’ Association (YDA) prompted remarkably similar types of questions across the media.
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Babar Sattar

In 1998 I lost my father to a sudden cardiac arrest. He was 49 years old. Anguished and insecure, the family decided to subject our mother to all possible medical examinations to determine and protect the state of her health. Her ECG suggested that there could be issues with the heart. Continue reading →

Brig(R) Nazir Shams
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Drug addiction has made a steady inroads in our community by eroding almost all segments of society; especially, the young and old, student and worker, and male and female. This monster is playing with the lives of our populace and has snuffed out many happy lives without any remorse. Continue reading →

by Naseem Sheikh

Dengue fever infects 1200 in Pakistan. Dengue affects between 50 and 100 million people in the tropics and subtropics each year, resulting in fever, muscle and joint ache. Continue reading →

By Prof Dr Arif Nawaz

Dengue fever has continued to haunt mankind for the last several centuries with historical accounts of this disease from Africa which are between five to six hundred years old. The first outbreaks of dengue fever reached Asia, South America and Africa concurrently in the 1780s. Continue reading →

By Zahrah Nasir

As the number of dengue fever patients and fatalities continues to soar, it is time to halt the futile blame game with most people blaming the government for the epidemic, which is slowly but surely spreading from Punjab to other parts of the country. How the Aedes aegypti mosquito, which carries the virus, first entered the country is debatable. Continue reading →

By Saroop Ijaz

The French epigram, “the more it changes, the more it remains the same”, is as applicable to Pakistan as it has ever been. Continue reading →

Dr Sania Nazir Chaudhry

This is not the first time that the Punjab population has been attacked by the dengue mosquito. Last year, dengue had also struck. It returned again this year, stronger and resistant than before. But what was the federal and provincial administration doing meanwhile? Continue reading →