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Dr Rana Jawad Asghar

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Lead in children's blood: a silent national emergency

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...

06.05.2026 40

The Express Tribune

Dr Rana Jawad Asghar

Epstein, dirty money and polio

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...

05.03.2026 80

The Express Tribune

Dr Rana Jawad Asghar

Nipah outbreak in India: why is the world afraid?

India announced two confirmed cases of Nipah virus in mid-January 2026, which started a global concern. Multiple Asian countries have now started...

05.02.2026 40

The Express Tribune

Dr Rana Jawad Asghar

Why does Islamabad hate trees?

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...

16.01.2026 40

The Express Tribune

Dr Rana Jawad Asghar

Super flu: next pandemic?

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...

25.12.2025 30

The Express Tribune

Dr Rana Jawad Asghar

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 40

The Express Tribune

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 40

The Express Tribune

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 30

The Express Tribune

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 40

The Express Tribune

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

The Express Tribune

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 80

The Express Tribune

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 70

The Express Tribune

Dr Rana Jawad Asghar