Boy born with no ears gets sunglasses wish

Boy Born With No Ears Gets Sunglasses Wish Kieran Sorkin, 9, from Hertfordshire, was told at a hospital appointment on Thursday that his new ears had healed sufficiently to support his shades. Kieran was born with bilateral microtia, which means he just had small lobes where his ears should have been. He had an operation last summer to create a pair of ears made of cartilage taken from his ribs. It took place at the world-re

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Noisy quacks under the knife

Noisy quacks under the knife In the backdrop of a rise in the number of quacks in Punjab, especially Lahore, Punjab Healthcare Commission (PHC) in collaboration with the Punjab government has launched a campaign against these self-claimed life savers across the province. According to PHC, a stern action will be taken against so-called dentists, orthopaedics and other unqualified doctors who are playing with the lives of mass

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UNODC assures full cooperation for treatment of HIV patients

UNODC assures full cooperation for treatment of HIV patients United Nation Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Adviser Anne Bergens on Saturday assured full cooperation and expressed well wishes for patients of HIV AIDSShe was addressing a consultative meeting to showcase art adherence unit (AAU) providing rehabilitation for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patient and the people who inject drugs (PWID). She said, “it

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Ramazan advisory: Doctors urge caution for diabetics

Ramazan advisory: Doctors urge caution for diabetics With Ramazan just around the corner, doctors have called on diabetics to pay extra care in managing their glucose levels while fasting. They were speaking at a seminar organised by Shifa International Hospital (SIH) to educate diabetic patients on how they can fast without adversely affecting their health. Consultant Endocrinologist Dr Usama Ishtiaq said diabetics have risk

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Age-related memory loss only partial

Age-related memory loss only partial The widespread belief that memory deteriorates as one approaches old age is not completely true as researchers have found that while the capacity to recall specific facts deteriorates with age, other types of memory do not. "In old age, deterioration appears in episodic memory but not in semantic memory,"  "Episodic memory preserves the facts of the past in our personal life, and it

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