Pakistan’s Health Minister Syed Mustafa Kamal said on Tuesday there was no shortage of medicines in the country despite disruptions to shipping routes caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran, adding that he aimed to increase medicine stocks to six months. Oil and cargo flow through the Strait of Hormuz have been widely disrupted following […]
Medicine
CM orders report on children’s death in Multan by taking ‘medicine’
LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has taken strict notice of the children’s death by taking substandard medicine in Multan and sought a report from the commissioner and the health secretary. The chief minister also directed to hold a comprehensive inquiry about the incident besides taking stern legal action against the responsible, said a handout […]
Two scientists from US, one from Britain get Nobel Medicine prize for learning how cells use oxygen
The 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded on Monday to two Americans and a British scientist for their discoveries in how the body’s cells sense and react to oxygen levels. Their work has paved the way for new strategies to fight anemia, cancer and other diseases, the Nobel Committee of the Karolinska Institute said […]
Watch Jennifer Lopez’s carnival-themed video for ‘Medicine’
Actress and singer Jennifer Lopez throws a very chic carnival in her music video for new single “Medicine,” creating a dynamic freak show in monochrome white. In the clip for the track, which features French Montana, Lopez takes on various roles, first as a fashionable fortune teller, then in a glittering, all-white cowgirl outfit on […]
The specter of ignorance haunting our campuses
I am a final year MBBS student at LUMHS Jamshoro, one of the ISO certified campuses in Pakistan. Getting admission here was, for the moment, a dream come true. I came here with great expectations, but all of it turned out against my expectations. The basics of medical science were taught by teachers who spent […]