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Beijing shuts parks, museums as China’s Covid-19 cases rise

22Nov

By Muhammad Dastageer ShamsNo Comments

Global, Health

Beijing shuts parks, museums as China’s Covid-19 cases rise

China has decided to shut down Parks and Museums due to the rise of Covid-19 cases. Health officials have reported two additional deaths linked to Covid-19. This death toll is lower from the past week’s 3. The number of cases are rising again in China since May. The most recent wave is testing recent adjustments to China's "Zero-Covid” policy. The policy made the authorities focus more on their enforcement actions. Moreover, the policy refrains from the widespread lockdowns and testing that have stifled the economy and irritated citizens. According to analysts, localities responsible for 19.9% of China's total GDP were subject to restrictions or lockdowns on Tuesday. This percentage is up from 15.6 percent on Monday and near the index's peak in April. In April, the government pla...

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) vs Depression Induced Disorder (DID)

31Oct

By Muhammad Dastageer ShamsNo Comments

Health

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) vs Depression Induced Disorder (DID)

Generalized Anxiety disorder (GAD) is a sort of mental disorder. A person with this disorder feels it difficult to control excessive worry about most things. Anxiety is when a person worries about a particular thing in his or her life. Whereas Depression Induced Disorder is a mood disorder. It causes a person to persistently feel sad as well as lose interest. When a person loses someone or something valuable, it makes them hard to feel happy and peaceful for some time. However, People with Depression Induced Disorder (DID) fall into a deep feeling of sadness. People all over the world seem to mix the 2 disorders as one but in truth, these feelings are poles apart. Generalized Anxiety disorder causes a person to consistently worry about things such as money, health, family, work, and a ...

CyberKnife System: Fastest cure to the cancer

17Sep

By Kino1 Comment

Health

CyberKnife System: Fastest cure to the cancer

CyberKnife System is a non-invasive medical treatment for curing both cancerous and non-cancerous tumors and other conditions where radiation therapy is indicated. It provides a true Robotic insertion of radiation throughout the body. Time duration of CyberKnife treatment method is usually 1-5 sessions. CyberKnife system has facilitated thousands of patients worldwide and clinically proved of more than 2 decades. It is much different than surgical procedures that require incision and general anesthesia. The unique High-Dose radiation therapy denies the fact because it is a nonsurgical and noninvasive outpatient procedure. Treatment Areas It is used to treat cancerous cells present anywhere in the body including lung, spine, liver, pancreas, prostate, brain, head and neck, and kid...

Paracetamol stopped production of Panadol in Pakistan

13Sep

By Aqsa Azam1 Comment

Health

Paracetamol stopped production of Panadol in Pakistan

The generic tablet Panadol is facing a massive shortage in the Pakistani Market. Due to the sudden dengue and covid outbreak, people are looking for the best alternative these days. The company stopped production of the tablet due to the ineffectiveness of cost. Panadol is the most generic tablet every household has for pain relief and fever. But recently the Pakistani market is seeing a massive shortage of this tablet. In this weather, the level of dengue fever and Covid is skyrocketing, To cure that Panadol is a must-have. But people couldn't find the medicine due to no production at the company's end. This tablet is manufactured by GSK company which is the oldest pharmaceutical company in Pakistan. According to them, they produce around 450 million Panadol tablets each year. Re...

URGENT action in Europe over monkeypox :WHO

6Jul

By Muhammad Dastageer ShamsNo Comments

Global, Health

URGENT action in Europe over monkeypox :WHO

Europe has been informed to increase its monitoring and genetic sequencing of the monkeypox outbreak. As Europe has been home to almost 90% of the cases of monkeypox. World Health Organization (WHO) called out on Europe on Friday. WHO stated that Europe needs to take "urgent" action against the spread of monkeypox. This happened after the number of cases tripled in weeks."Today, I am intensifying my call for governments and civil society to scale up efforts in the coming weeks and months. In order to prevent monkeypox from spreading itself throughout a developing geographical area". WHO Regional Director for Europe Hans Kluge stated. Furthermore, he said: "Urgent and coordinated action is vital if we're to take lead in opposing the ongoing spread of this disease". Fear over unfolding ...