ISLAMABAD- Absence of the subject matter in the school curriculum, parental opposition, poor health due to lack of safe drinking water, rising poverty and health safety concerns of individual before, during and after blood donation are the main barriers to voluntary unpaid blood donors.Factors ...

JHANG/HAFIZABAD/RAHIM YAR KHANAt least 18 persons including seven women and a minor were killed and eight others injured in different incidents of enmity and road mishaps over past 24 hours.According to detail, in Jhang a man and his wife were killed in a road mishap. As per reports, Ahmed Faheem ...

The Machiavellian doctrine is essentially based on a principle that favours the complete subordination of the means to an end. It advocates that ends justifies the means which means use or reliance on any method instrument and adoption of any course, so as to achieve one’s desired objective, ...

KARACHI - Health experts have said that 92 million blood donations are made annually around the world, 50 per cent donations are made in high income countries housing only 15 per cent world population. Dow University is working hard to mobilise voluntary blood donor in order to cater the demand of ...

New research indicates that high and abnormally low blood pressures can have a detrimental effect on one's thinking ability or however, the association seems to be influenced by age, educational level, and use of blood pressure drugs. The findings are based on a study of 847 subjects who completed ...

LAHORE - Although terrorists have stepped up their activities in various parts of the country and dozens of innocent people have been killed in bomb blasts during the past few days, there is just no possibility of the government delaying the May 11 polls, a federal minister said in categorical ...

USA is still in shock after the killing of innocent people during the Boston Marathon bombing. World leaders and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon have condemned the attack. Killing of innocent people is internationally accepted as a heinous crime and there is no justification for committing it ...

ISLAMABAD - A simple operation which could cure high blood pressure is being tested on patients in the UK.The breakthrough treatment could save thousands of lives each year after the trials showed a substantial and permanent reduction in blood pressure and a decrease in drugs needed.It is hoped the ...

ISLAMABAD – A study analyzed that a modest reduction in salt intake for four or more weeks caused significant falls in blood pressure in people with both raised and normal blood pressure. This happened in both men and women, irrespective of ethnic group, it was reported. The study led by ...

ISLAMABAD - World Health Day is being observed today and the theme of this year’s World Health Day campaign is high blood pressure.This year’s campaign provides an opportunity to focus attention on the prevention and control of heart disease and stroke through a focus on hypertension ...

Balochistan National Party chief Akhtar Mengal arrived here on Sunday after four and half years and addressed a public rally in the provincial capital.The Baloch leader said that there should be no illusion that decisions could be enforced upon the Baloch at gunpoint against their wishes.He ...

LONDON (DS)A dog has donated his blood in order to save another pooch’s life. Samson the St Bernard was in desperate need of a blood transfusion after he underwent surgery on his twisted spleen. Luckily the receptionist at the vet practice owned Blitz, who was an exact match for Samson. Blitz ...

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) Malaysians smeared with fake blood roamed a jungle range on the outskirts of the capital Kuala Lumpur Saturday in the Southeast Asian's country's first "zombie run". Organisers for the Zombie Run Malaysia 2013 said on their Facebook page that 150 "zombies" were expected to chase ...

MAHIR ALI - For those who favour a simple explanation, it’s not hard to interpret the bloody goings - on at an Algerian gas facility deep in the Sahara as Al Qaeda’s response to the French military intervention in neighbouring Mali.Simplicity often comes at the cost of accuracy, ...

KARACHI – The Shabab-e-Milli on Sunday organised a blood donation camp in Lyari for poor and needy patients.A large number of Shabab-e-Milli activists donated blood. Citizens also took part in blood donation. JI leader Hussain Mehnati visited the camp.

ISLAMABAD – Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) in study of health risks finds that high blood pressure caused 9.4m early deaths, while smoking was next biggest People with high blood pressure are at the greatest risk of ill health and an early death, with tobacco use as the ...

ISLAMABAD – People from blood groups A, B and AB are more at risk of heart diseases than those with the more common blood type O, a study suggests.Those with the rarest blood group, AB, are the most vulnerable - they are 23 per cent more likely to suffer from heart diseases than those with ...

ISLAMABAD  – A possible new blood test based on the presence of a protein released after a heart attack, could help diagnose an attack, new research suggests.Loyola University scientists said cMyBP-C (cardiac myosin binding protein-C) is a large protein. “This (cMyBP-C) potentially ...

Death and violence continues to plague Afghanistan and Pakistan. In the Herat province of Afghanistan, 14 persons were killed including women and children in a raid by Nato and Isaf air forces. A suicide attack claimed the lives of two allied soldiers and four intelligence officials. Across the ...

MUZAFFARGARH – The 2012 World Blood Donor Day was observed in across district Muzaffargarh to raise awareness regarding safe transfusion of blood and to pay tribute to voluntary blood donors.On the occasion, DCO Tahir Khurshid Chaudhry donated his blood in the District Headquarters Hospital. ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US researchers have found oddly-shaped blood cells in heart attack patients, indicating that a blood test could help predict whether a patient is at risk of an imminent cardiac emergency.The study by the Scripps Translational Science Institute (STSI) found that the endothelial ...

IT’S good news for the two-thirds of Britons who have a cup of tea every day - enjoying a brew may significantly reduce your blood pressure.Scientists at The University of Western Australia and Unilever discovered that drinking three cups of tea a day lowers systolic and diastolic blood ...

PARIS (AFP) - European scientists on Tuesday said they had identified a new way by which the malaria parasite survives in human blood, a finding that marks the latest laboratory advance against the disease. Malarias death toll has declined by a fifth over the last decade thanks to better drugs and ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER SOHDRA - A meeting of Pakistan Blood Welfare Society was held under the chairmanship of President Farooq Minhas of the society here. The meeting was informed that Rs 952,000 was spent for the construction of Pak Free Welfare Hospital where as many as 1,372 deserving patients were ...

LAHORE On the directions of DIG Fateh Sher Joyia, the National Highways & Motorway Police (N-5 Central) have initiated, in collaboration with Punjab Red Crescent, a programme to compile blood group data of all the officers. The aim is that if an emergency occurs, the required blood group may ...

KARACHI At least 45 people lost their lives to violence and more than 100 were wounded here on Thursday as Karachi continued to bleed for the third consecutive day, bringing the death toll to 77. Thursdays deaths included those who were killed in the indiscriminate firing on two local passenger ...

Our Staff Reporter MULTAN - Central leader of All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) Dr Sher Afgan Niazi has said that Pakistan is passing through a very critical time and the politicians and other quarters should refrain from criticizing Pakistan Army. Talking to the journalists on Monday night, he ...

MIRPUR - Leader of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) AJK and former chairman MDA Chaudhry Muhammad Saddique announced that PPP AJK would observe a week of ceremonies on the birthday of PPP slain chairperson Benazir Bhutto in Mirpur and across the AJK. Addressing a news conference at Kashmir Press Club, ...

ISLAMABAD - Blood transfusion system is weak in Pakistan as only 60 per cent blood banks screen blood for only three diseases and infectious blood transfusions instead of saving lives are spreading diseases. Quaid Saeed, WHO National Programme Officer for Blood Safety and HIV revealed this at ...

LAHORE City police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested a 35-year-old woman in connection with the mysterious killing of her mother-in-law, who was found dead at her house in Shadbagh police area after Tuesday midnight. Police said that the killer identified as Shagufta Bibi, resident of Chah ...