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The Pakistan Dental Association wants to collaborate with India in higher education and training in dentistry and buy equipment and materials from here. A 150-member delegation from Pakistan Dental Association, participating in a four-day Federation Dentaire International (FDI) conference that began here Friday, made this interest evident. Over 4,500 delegates are attending the mega exhibition-cum-conference [...]

After more than seven years in Pakistan’s Lahore Central Jail, Ghulam Rabbani Sarkar, whose family had almost given him up for dead, returned home this Monday. In March this year, the 33-year-old was first allowed by the jailers to write home. It was this letter that his father took to Union water resources minister and [...]

More than 2.2 million Afghans have returned home so far from Pakistan since the voluntary repatriation programme of the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) started in 2002, an official of the agency told IRIN in the capital, Islamabad, on Monday. “Over 300,000 Afghans have returned to their homeland since the [...]

The 40-day study, of 60 people in Pakistan with Type 2 diabetes, found that one gram a day of cinnamon — one-fourth of a teaspoon twice daily — significantly lowered the subjects’ blood sugar, triglycerides (fatty acids in the blood), LDL (or “bad”) cholesterol, and total cholesterol. Don’t go bananas with this, of course. In [...]

“The conditions of India and Pakistan are more or less similar. Pakistan is a shade better than us as NGOs have started a movement by trying to modify the medical education to suit the community.” This was stated here today by Prof S M Bose who attended the two-day International Conference of Community Oriented Medical [...]

Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has said that a helicopter service will be introduced in the Lahore region for transporting people injured during natural calamities and other accidents. He made the announcement at a meeting in the Mayo Hospital here on Saturday…

A project to provide state-of-the-art ophthalmology facilities to people in remote areas had been launched with $5 million financial assistance from Australia…

Mohammed Ahmed, the ten-day-old Pak baby, who developed complications in an Indian Airlines flight from Delhi to Bangalore where he was to undergo heart surgery, is in stable condition at a cardiac hospital here. Ahmed was airlifted to Bangalore on Thursday after the flight had an emergency landing Wednesday at Hyderabad to save him. The [...]