Category: 8. Health

A representational image depicting foods related to keto diet. — Unsplash/File A potential mechanism supporting the improvements seen in aging male mice on ketogenic or keto diets has been discovered by the researchers. Cycling male mice between a control diet and a ketogenic diet results in an improvement in the signalling that takes place between…

The Senate Standing Committee on Finance has backed a proposal to end the tax exemptions granted to charitable and trust hospitals in Pakistan. The Senate body under the chairmanship of PPP Senator Saleem Mandviwala convened to discuss the issue of sales tax on charitable hospitals. The committee advocated for the abolition of sales tax exemption…

A person applying sunscreen on their hands. — Unsplash/File Sunscreen is regarded as an important skin protecting tool especially by the people residing in regions with extreme sunlight. As the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) instructs people to “apply sunscreen every day on skin not covered by clothing if you will be outside,” conversation on…

Training session for Punjab’s first air ambulance service before launching in June 2024. — Screengrab via X/@MaryamNSharif The Punjab government is expected to launch its first air ambulance service on motorways as training sessions for the medical teams are underway. This development was hailed as a “golden chapter” in Punjab’s history by Minister for Specialised…

An illustration depicting the gut microbiome. — Unsplash/File Gut microbiome has been discovered to be an important factor in determining the age of a human body by a proposal of the Chinese researchers. They also revealed its possible impact on regulating metabolic aging, as per a recent research article published in the journal Nature Medicine,…

An image of tobacco kept on a table. — Unsplash/File At least 2.7 million people are killed by the consumption of tobacco, alcohol, ultra-processed foods (UPFs) every year in Europe, as per the World Health Organization (WHO), which has called on governments to impose stricter regulation of health-harming products. The WHO said in a groundbreaking…

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday directed the establishment of a health tower of international standards in the federal capital. This facility will include hospitals, medical and nursing universities, modern laboratories, and diagnostic centers. Chairing a meeting to review matters related to the Ministry of National Health Services, the prime minister instructed the… Continue Reading…

A representational image depicting  the artificial sugar sweeteners. — Unsplash/File Higher amounts of xylitol, a type of sugar alcohol, is the cause of an increased risk of heart attack, stroke, and other cardiovascular events, as per a report by the Cleveland Clinic researchers in a study published in the European Heart Journal. The associations in…

ISLAMABAD: This year’s fifth case of poliovirus infection has been confirmed in Quetta. The infected child did not survive and died in Karachi last month. According to the Regional Reference Laboratory at the National Institute of Health (NIH), the legs of the two-year-old child were affected by the crippling disease on April 29. He was…

A woman walks in Vatican City during a heatwave across Italy, July 19, 2023. — Reuters In a series of articles presented by the World Health Organization (WHO), documented scientific evidence highlighted the harmful impact of climate change upon the significant stages of the human life cycle. “These provide important scientific evidence on how the…