M. Waqar Bhatti, is an investigative reporter, currently covering health, science, environment and water issues for The News International.
Over 90,000 people, mostly children and women, are bitten by stray dogs in Karachi every year, and around 250 people report to different hospitals...
In a country where around 40 million adults are living with hypertension or high blood pressure, people in their early 20s and 30s are having heart...
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad Healthcare Regulatory Authority has imposed a fine of Rs1 million on the private health facility over the death of a...
ISLAMABAD: Clinical pharmacists at three leading health facilities in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi have identified around 80,000 prescription...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s National Polio Laboratory has confirmed the detection of Wild Poliovirus Type-1 in the sewage samples collected from Hangu...
ISLAMABAD: The ‘off-label’ use of cancer drug Bevacizumab is helping eye specialists in preventing loss among diabetics across the globe...
ISLAMABAD: The ‘off-label’ use of cancer drug Bevacizumab is helping eye specialists in preventing loss among diabetics across the globe...
LAHORE: Uncontrolled diabetes among millions of diabetics is now resulting in vision loss due to ‘diabetic retinopathy’, which is one of the...
MURREE: Deaths from dengue fever can be prevented, if the treatment guidelines are properly followed by the physicians as ‘late diagnosis, wrong...
