A girl receives polio vaccine drops, during an anti-polio campaign, in a low-income neighborhood in Karachi on July 20, 2020. — Reuters Immunity gaps critical obstacle to eradication efforts, experts say. Polio vaccine refusal surged in areas like Pesahwar, parts of Karachi. Karachi, Quetta, Peshawar called core reservoirs of polio transmission. ISLAMABAD: A report by … Read more
A test tube labelled “Mpox virus positive” is held in this illustration taken August 20, 2024. — Reuters PESHAWAR: Another case of the mpox, also known as monkeypox, was reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), pushing the tally of the virus to six in Pakistan, provincial Health Minister Syed Qasim Ali Shah said on Wednesday. Notably, … Read more
As we reported earlier in the week, there has been a proliferation of illicit operations, known as scam farms, following the COVID-19 pandemic, across Southeast Asia – including in the Philippines – where they have often operated alongside legal gambling businesses. UNODC is supporting countries across the region to cooperate more closely to fight back … Read more
Three northern Alberta Indigenous groups say the federal government has kept them in the dark about a contaminated dock site in their community. The Big Dock, as it’s known in Fort Chipewyan, is owned by Transport Canada. The dock is used for commercial purposes, but Allan Adam, chief of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, said the … Read more
That day was in November 2023, around a month into the war in Gaza. Ala’a is among an estimated 155,000 pregnant women and new mothers in the Gaza Strip who for the past year have been forced to give birth under fire, in tents, while fleeing bombs and often without assistance, medication or even clean water. … Read more
Longtime talk show host Ellen DeGeneres announced last week that she has been diagnosed with osteoporosis, as well as OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder) and ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder). During her final Netflix special “For Your Consideration,” DeGeneres, 66, opened up about her triple diagnosis, noting that she took a bone density test recommended by her doctor and … Read more
Reaching for cash, lipstick or a comb nearly causes your hand to get stuck in the process. How does that relate to sore gums? Gums can have pockets too, but you want them to be tight. Teeth and gums should cling together so tightly that you can get little more than dental floss into the … Read more
The image shows mice in a laboratory in Japan. — Reuters/File Applying a food-safe dye that absorbs light onto the skin of a mouse makes its skin transparent, allowing researchers to look into the blood vessels of the scalp, the movement of organs under the skin of the abdomen, and at working muscles, they reported … Read more
A health worker administrates polio-vaccine drops to a child during anti-polio immunization campaign in Azizabad area in Karachi on June 4, 2024. — PPI Balochistan becomes polio epicentre with 15 cases this year. Multiple challenges hinder Pakistan’s polio eradication efforts. 2 major door-to-door vaccination campaigns planned this year. ISLAMABAD: Authorities on Wednesday confirmed that a 30-month-old … Read more
A representational image showing a patient showing his hand with a sore caused by an infection of the mpox virus, in the isolation area for mpox patients. — AFP/File Health Ministry officials have raised alarm bells over the performance of Border Health Services (BHS) personnel after a monkeypox patient went undetected at the Islamabad airport … Read more