Health

Results of a 50-year study in Sweden investigating centenarians revealed that all men in the study were born before WW1, but only 10 of the original 855 survived until their 100th birthday. All were non-smokers, who had kept themselves slim…

A horse driven cart moves slowly in the wee hours of a foggy grey about to break dawn on the cobblestoned streets, filled to the brim with dead, decaying, bodies to be thrown in the charnel house. The year is 1660 and world is literally…

All over the world, more than 300 million people are suffering from depression. According to World Health Organization, depression is one of the leading cause of disability and more women are affected by it than men. Also it is one of the…

When a woman's reproductive life ends around fifty years of age, she experiences natural occurrence of menopause. Menopause is a biological process. It's not a disease, but what makes it problematic for the woman is her ignorance in dealing…

I believe that the strongest humans are serving doctors. In office debates I have been pro-doctors despite their sit-ins, untilI spent a night among the biggest hospital for paediatrics in Lahore. In the morning,I got the news of my…

Human intelligence is capable of working wonders.One of these wonders was the discovery of antimicrobial drugs, the prototype of which was Penicillin, unearthed by relentless efforts of Scottish biologist Alexander Fleming in1927. This…