Health

GENEVA: Electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products are not helping fight cancer, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday, urging smokers and governments not to trust claims from cigarette firms about their latest products. The seventh “WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic” said blocking the industry’s interference was …

WEB DESK: World Hepatitis Day is being observed today with the theme of “Invest in eliminating Hepatitis”. The theme focuses on the hepatitis elimination goals by 2030. According to WHO a report a total of 58.7 billion dollars amount is needed to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat …

Electronic cigarettes are “undoubtedly harmful” and should be regulated, the WHO said Friday as it warned against the use of vaping products by smokers trying to quit their deadly habit. The growing popularity of e-cigarettes, battery-powered devices that enable users to inhale addictive nicotine liquids, has raised fears among policymakers …

  ISLAMABAD: The government has decided to carry out a crackdown on fairness creams, the minister for climate change announced in a press conference. Addressing a press conference here in the federal capital, Zartaj Gul Wazir, the state minister for climate change, said companies selling cheap fairness creams were contributing …

There’s more bad news for fans of sugary drinks such as soda and fruit juice. A new study has linked drinking just a small glass of a sugary drink per day — 100 ml, about a third of a typical can of soda — to an 18% increase in overall …

ISLAMABAD: Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) has decided to take action against illegal advertisement of medicines by Pharmaceuticals companies, ARY News reported on Sunday. According to details, the DRAP had issued a letter to all its departments in provinces and the capital to take action against the illegal advertisement …

KARACHI: Forty yeas-old Mohammad Ali, a resident of Surjani Town has been refused at the gate a third time for a CT scan at Karachi’s Civil Hospital, Sindh’s largest public-sector hospital. Speaking to Geo News Ali said, “This was the third time in two months that the staff has refused …

FAISALABAD: The number of HIV-positive-registered patients in Faisalabad Allied Hospital has risen to 2,800, sources at the medical facility said. Faisalabad Allied Hospital, under the Punjab AIDS Control Programme, is catering to HIV positive patients and providing services such as free treatment and guidance on protection from AIDS. Among the …

LONDON (Web Desk)  the main ingredient in ecstasy, makes humans more likely to cooperate — but only with trustworthy people — researchers said Monday in the first study into how the drug impacts our willingness to help others. Despite its status in Britain as a Class A drug, MDMA is widely …

DAKAR (Web Desk) When Moustapha Dieng came down with stomach pains one-day last month he did the sensible thing and went to a doctor in his hometown of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso’s capital. The doctor prescribed a malaria treatment but the medicine cost too much for Dieng, a 30-year-old tailor, so he …