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Bhatti oversees a residential program to help recently released prisoners adjust to life outside prison. The program lasts 10 months and currently has 13 residents, but over the last four years it’s had about 190 participants, all of them male. During the first five months in the program, residents promise not to take jobs, but [...]

Doctors have found two pairs of scissors and a piece of paper in the lungs of a woman who claims she never underwent any surgery in her life. For the last 11 years, Sharifaan Bibi had been feeling as if something was eating into her lungs. She got treatment from several doctors but all went [...]

Viagra, the world’s renowned magic medicine to treat male impotency, is coming to Pakistan as it has passed all the tests and crossed almost every hiccup to be in the shelves of country’s medical stores. The high-powered federal drug appellate board of the health ministry met early this week in Islamabad and has reached closed [...]

Following a rare initiative involving an international health agency, an airline and the administration of a hospital in Karachi, a kidney was flown in from Europe and transplanted into an 18-year-old Pakistani, Uzma, in the early hours of Sunday. A patient of end-stage renal disease, Uzma had been on dialysis for the last more than [...]

Mercy Hospital Mount Airy has named Dr. Naveed Fazlani, an associate medical director, its 2004 Physician of the Year. The award, announced last month, is decided by physicians, hospital staff and medical office staff. It recognizes physicians who demonstrate excellence and caring in direct patient care. “It is an honor to be recognized by the [...]

The frequent rise in the number of burn victims during the last few years made concerned citizens of Karachi to constitute a group known as ‘Friends of Burns Centre’ who along with medical professionals attempted to help provide the city with a full fledged Burns Centre, within the premises of the city’s oldest tertiary care [...]

Ministry of Social Welfare is considering to establish five senior citizens centres, one each at federal and provincial headquarters. Similarly, under traditional virtue of respecting/assisting aged persons, Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) would offer distant learning courses through state-run television with the objectives i.e. preparing the people for meeting the challenges of the old age [...]

The Edhi Foundation has bought some 20 boats to carry out rescue operations to save the lives of fishermen. Faisal Edhi told The News that out of 20 boats, four were bought for fishermen, to save their lives in case of their vessels’ drowning. The 20-feet long boat can carry 40 people and is also [...]

A 32-year-old Pakistani woman diagnosed as suffering from the brain tumour has benefited from Apollo Hospital’s newly launched New Delhi-Lahore telemedicine link by getting expert advice from radiation oncologists. The crucial link, a boon for patients and caregivers, looking for the best medical opinions, was inaugurated in Lahore today by Ms Anne Marie Moncure, Managing [...]

Saudi Arabia is to provide jobs to more than twenty thousand Pakistani Doctors to strengthen all fields of its health sector. The announcement was made in a joint news conference addressed by Saudi Health Minister and his Pakistani counterpart in Islamabad on Tuesday. The Saudi Mminister emphasised to strengthen cooperation in different areas of health [...]