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HPV vaccine: is it for dirty people only?

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...

27.09.2025 20

Dr Rana Jawad Asghar

New Orleans, Lahore and historic floods

Exactly 20 years ago, hurricane Katrina devastated multiple US states. It caused widespread devastation of both property and life. When the US media...

18.09.2025 30

Dr Rana Jawad Asghar

Killer bridge, public health and public

When I was a medical student, we formed a 'Health Education Society' to share preventive health strategies. One of our earliest interventions was that...

25.08.2025 20

Dr Rana Jawad Asghar

Arresting doctors

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...

07.08.2025 30

Dr Rana Jawad Asghar

Health minister is telling the truth; please listen to him

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...

29.06.2025 30

Dr Rana Jawad Asghar

What's next for South Asia?

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...

26.05.2025 60

Dr Rana Jawad Asghar

The grand illusion of polio eradication

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...

24.04.2025 40