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Dr Rana Jawad AsgharDaily Times |
Recently UNICEF and Pakistan's Ministry of Health issued a very alarming report about our children. More than 40% of children in high risk areas...
I am a big critic of how the polio programme is being executed at the global level and locally in Pakistan. From the top medical journals like Lancet...
India announced two confirmed cases of Nipah virus in mid-January 2026, which started a global concern. Multiple Asian countries have now started...
My first stay in Islamabad was many decades back, when, as a young school student, I came here to attend the World Scout Jamboree. It was mid 70s, and...
For one hundred years, public health professionals had been working to prepare the world for the next pandemic. They were worried about flu viruses as...
Back in the late 90s I attended a medical conference in a medical college in Lahore when the speaker, a professor of dermatology, declared HIV/AIDS...
Exactly 20 years ago, hurricane Katrina devastated multiple US states. It caused widespread devastation of both property and life. When the US media...
When I was a medical student, we formed a 'Health Education Society' to share preventive health strategies. One of our earliest interventions was that...
Two doctors were having a leisurely lunch on the banks of a river. While eating they noticed a body floating in the water. Both jumped in the water...
This has not happened before. At least in the last twenty years I have not heard any senior government official publicly admitting this major flaw in...
Thanks to President Donald Trump's intervention, a looming disaster for 1.7 billion people has been averted. Pakistan and India were moving fast on...
A few days earlier, a high-level meeting was arranged on polio eradication. According to media reports, the meeting compared the polio cases data for...