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The critical equipment raises hops amid grim pandemic wave
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The Imran Khan Government has launched a new initiative to encourage Pakistani expatriate health professionals’ voluntary participation toward improvement...April 26, 2020
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Responding to an increasing demand for ventilators in the face of fast-spreading coronavirus, Pakistan‘s auto-part manufacturers have started work...April 1, 2020
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Scientists find a way to kill all types of cancer cells
In what is being hailed a major breakthrough, scientists at Australian biotechnology company Imugene have found a way to kill all types of cancer cells, raising hopes that cancer would become a curable disease in the...November 14, 2019 818 0 -
How a charity is bridging Pakistan’s woeful healthcare gaps
Al Mustafa Trust, one of the largest charitable healthcare organizations in Pakistan, held a fund-raising dinner in Falls Church, VA last week, with some leading Pakistani-American doctors and philanthropists in attendance. The event afforded Pakistani-Americans an...October 23, 2019 1430 0 -
How a bee sting exposed me to healthcare disconnects
Data, data everywhere, Not a drop to drink. Thank you for the nice description Coleridge. So, I’m not writing this article to complain. I just figured writing my experience down would have provide some cathartic relief...June 23, 2019 1230 0 -
Ayub Ommaya – the Pakistani-American who shaped neurosurgery with multiple inventions
For much of the past decade, negative mentioning of Pakistan and Pakistanis has been a norm in Washington. It was, therefore, a refreshing break to witness a select gathering of a cross-section of Washington luminaries to...November 17, 2018 3305 0 -
Virginia to start accepting Medicaid applications on Nov 1 under expansion plan
Image shows doctor at work at Grove Dental Clinic in Falls Church Virginia will start accepting applications on November 1, 2018 from adults eligible for health coverage under Medicaid expansion plan approved this year. According to...October 19, 2018 1277 0 -
New cancer care hospital in Pakistan to provide free treatment to patients
Dr. Shahryar speaks about rising cases of cancer in Pakistan, Photo: Views and News Asia’s second largest cancer treatment hospital – a charitable endeavor – will start providing free of cost treatment to patients of the...April 22, 2018 2681 1 -
A landmark discovery of biological clock’s working earns three Americans Nobel Prize
Three Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for their landmark discovery of molecular gene that controls the biological clock, the rhythm that keeps human bodies and minds going. Jeffrey C. Hall,...October 3, 2017 1519 0
