ISLAMABAD: Adding strawberries to your cereal, salad or smoothie can likely help protect your brain from Alzheimer’s disease, suggests a study. The researchers from RUSH University in the US found that a bioactive compound found in strawberries called pelargonidin may be associated with fewer neurofibrillary tau tangles in the brain. Tau tangles are one of […]
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Amazon spending $3.9 bn in expanding health care push
New York: Amazon announced Thursday it will acquire US primary health care provider One Medical for $3.9 billion, a major step for the online retail giant’s move into the medical sector. The massive firm has steadily gone far beyond e-commerce, and earlier this year said its telemedicine service was expanding nationwide in the United States. […]
Taller people more at risk of skin infections, nerve disorders: Study
ISLAMABAD: While standing tall among the crowd may give you an edge, the extra inches can come at a cost. A new study has confirmed that people who are tall are at a higher risk of developing a host of health problems including skin infections, nerve disorders. Tall or short, a person’s height is known […]
Islooites Beware: Feeding human food to wildlife species unhealthy
ISLAMABAD: The human empathy and affection towards animals and wildlife species could be harmful as human food may cause diseases or damage their health due to its unhealthy nature for animals. The scenic federal capital resting close to a living ecosystem of thriving Asian Leopards and foothills of the Himalayan Mountain range has reported various […]
Covid deaths in Europe pass two million mark: WHO
Copenhagen: The number of people who have died from Covid-19 in Europe, the long-time epicentre of the pandemic, has passed two million, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday. “A devastating milestone has passed as reported confirmed Covid-19 deaths from countries in the WHO European Region have exceeded more than 2 million people,” the UN […]
Shanghai locals sleep at work and ration food as lockdown bites
Shanghai: By day it’s Romeo’s workplace, by night it’s his home. Like many other finance sector workers in Shanghai, he has moved into the office to keep the wheels of commerce turning during a harsh Covid lockdown of the megacity. Anticipating that creeping closures would catch him out, Romeo decamped to the Pudong district in […]
Iran turns uranium into a substance pertinent to the detection of cancer
DUBAI: According to the UN nuclear watchdog and Iranian media, Iran has converted a small portion of its high-enriched uranium stockpile into a substance critical to the detection of cancer and other diseases. For the time being, Iran has decided not to further refine the uranium into weapons-grade levels by converting it. Negotiations over […]
Over 43 million children received polio vaccine
ISLAMABAD: The first National Immunisation Days (NIDs) campaign of 2022 successfully reached more than 43 million under-five children with life saving vaccines. Over 339,521 trained and dedicated polio workers were engaged in the vaccination drive to inoculate children at their doorstep. Dr. Shahzad Baig, Coordinator of the National Emergency Operations Centre, Polio Eradication Initiative (PEI), […]
New Zealand reports 19,566 new COVID-19 community cases
WELLINGTON : New Zealand reported 19,566 new community cases of COVID-19 on Thursday, said the Ministry of Health in a statement. The ministry also reported 10 deaths, bringing the total number of publicly reported deaths to 151, and 25 new cases were detected at the country’s border. Among the infections reported on Thursday, 4,867 cases were in the […]
Best health insurance system being introduced: Farrukh
FAISALABAD: Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting Farrukh Habib Saturday said the government was introducing world’s best universal health insurance system in the country so that quality health facilities could be provided to masses. Addressing the 14th convocation of Faisalabad Medical University (FMU) here, he said there were 1.2 million families across Punjab, which […]