Health
New research suggests effective and healthy way for workout
Monitoring Desk WASHINGTON: New evidence suggests if you really want to make the most of your exercise, you should do it at the same time each day. It’s a schedule your body will thank you for. A study lead by researchers from Brown Alpert Medical School in the US has shown it really doesn’t matter…
Read MorePro-obesity environment and genes could explain big rise in body weight
Monitoring Desk NEW YORK: Some people are more likely to put on weight than others because of their genes. However, genetic difference does not explain the significant rise in body weight since the 1960s as it has affected both those with and without pro-obesity genes. New research suggests that the rise in bodyweight since the…
Read MoreFour more kids die of malnutrition
F.P. Report THARPARKAR: Four children are reported to have died due to malnutrition within last two days in Civil Hospital Mithi. The death toll of children during the ongoing month has climbed to 10. The number of children who have lost their lives during the current year due to malnutrition and other diseases in Mithi…
Read MoreParental refusal cripples five more children
F.P. Report PESHAWAR: Due to trend of persistent misconception and parents’ refusal to vaccinate their children caused us the paralysis of five more innocent children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa raising the total count of polio cases so far for 2019 to 31 in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and to 37 in the country respectively. First case…
Read MorePoor eye patients get free consultations, eye surgeries
Rafiullah Mandokhail ZHOB: “Thousands poor and deserving patients suffering from eye ailments received free consultation, surgeries and lens at the free eye medical and surgical camp held at DHQ civil hospital Zhob”, said In-charge Leprosy and Blindness Control Program Syed Moin-ud-Din Shah while talking to journalists here on Wednesday. Following the two-day camp, he said…
Read MoreSri Lanka: 35 people die from dengue
Monitoring Desk COLOMBO: Thirty five people died and over 23,000 were infected by the dengue virus across Sri Lanka in the first six months of this year, the Epidemiology Unit said here Monday. Till the end of June, a total of 23,842 dengue cases were reported, with the highest number of cases reported from the…
Read MoreMost British MPs might suffer from mental health issues, new study finds
Monitoring Desk LONDON: While the UK is struggling to cope with Brexit, a survey has raised concerns about the well-being of those who are to steer it out of the political chaos. It revealed that depression, distress and other conditions are more likely to hit members of the House of Commons than people with other…
Read More2m children can’t reach their full potential in Afghanistan due to undernutrition
Monitoring Desk KABUL/VRYSSEKS: As the Global Nutrition Cluster side event on Afghanistan is underway in Brussels, there is a clarion call for consolidated and sustained efforts to tackle undernutrition. Children in Afghanistan continue to bear the brunt of decades of protracted conflict. In 2019, an estimated 6.3 million people, including 3.8 million children, require some…
Read MoreWHO launches plan to improve quality of health products
F.P. Report KARACHI: In recent months regulators across many countries have recalled dozens of medicines to treat high blood pressure because they were found to contain potentially cancer-causing impurities. These medicines (including valsartan, losartan, Irbesartan) are commonly prescribed globally and came from different manufacturers. The impurities were due to changes in the manufacturing process. A…
Read MoreCure for baldness in sight as scientists make ‘critical breakthrough’
Monitoring Desk NEW YORK: A cure for baldness could be within sight after scientists created hair that grows through the skin using human stem cells. Researchers in the United States said they had refined a method which allowed them to grow hair through the skin of mice using dermal papilla cells derived from human pluripotent…
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