Health
Vitamin D has mixed effects on cancer, broken bones
Dec 20th
NEW YORK: Extra vitamin D and calcium may offer some protection against fractures in elderly people, but have litt
Elite athletes at greater risk for arthritis: study
Dec 19th
STOCKHOLM: Elite male athletes who participate in high-contact sports such as football, soccer and rugby have a hi
Record 173 polio cases reported in 2011
Dec 16th
ISLAMABAD: The number of polio cases in Pakistan has risen to 173 in 2011 breaking a five-year record, Geo News re
Chilean surgeons separate conjoined twins
Dec 15th
SANTIAGO: A Chilean medical team early Wednesday successfully separated 10-month-old twin girls joined at the ches
Tiniest babies are growing up healthy despite odds
Dec 14th
CHICAGO: One is a healthy first-grader, the other an honors college student majoring in psychology.
Studies may have overestimated cellphone crash risk
Dec 13th
NEW YORK: Increased risk of having a car crash attributed to cellphone use may have been overestimated in some pas
26,000 women die of diabetes every year in Pakistan
Dec 12th
KARACHI: In Pakistan, every year twelve thousand diabetes patients suffer problem of Retinopathy and more than a h
Gene therapy proves effective for hemophilia B
Dec 11th
SAN DIEGO: A single treatment with gene therapy, an experimental technique for fixing faulty genes, has been shown
Eating Dry fruits in winter is healthy
Dec 10th
ISLAMABAD: Eating dry fruit is also one of the favorite pass times of the people in winter they enjoy it while usi
Gallbladder, appendix surgery safe in pregnancy
Dec 10th
NEW YORK: Pregnant women are at no greater risk of developing an infection or other complication after having thei
Weeklong awareness campaign against AIDS
Dec 9th
PESHAWAR: A non-governmental organization, Pakistan Village Development Program (PVDP) observed a week-long awaren
Vitamin D doesn”t prevent heart attack or cancer
Dec 9th
NEW YORK: Among seniors with a high risk of bone fractures, taking vitamin D or calcium pills has no impact on the
Top-grade stem cells seen boosting research trials
Dec 8th
LONDON: British scientists have made the first human embryonic stem cells of a high enough grade to use in patient
Headaches common in kids months after brain injury
Dec 8th
NEW YORK: Kids who have a concussion or other traumatic brain injury are more likely to develop headaches for up t
Badin most disease-hit district of Pakistan
Dec 8th
ISLAMABAD: Three cases of polio were confirmed in September this year – two in Killa Abdullah district in Balochis


















































