Posts Tagged ‘Health’

Money Worshipers in Pakistan – Halal Food?

We Pakistani love Food especially our desi food, like me most of the people prefer to go out side and have a junk food like samoosa, pakora, jalibi, dahi bhalay, channa chat etc etc. While reading Pakistaniat I’ve found this shocking video report telecast by Dunya TV. We don’t know the food we are eating [...]

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PAKTech Team to Compete in Microsoft’s Imagine Cup 2010

“I wish there had been an Imagine Cup when I was growing up. It gets people involved in seeing that software is changing the world.” – Bill Gates Chairman, Microsoft Corp. Imagine Cup is the program launched by Microsoft, which is open to participate for the students  around the world. Imagine Cup is a serious challenge [...]

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Dell sponsors Pakistan’s first ever Blog awards

Dell recently sponsored Pakistan’s first ever blog awards ceremony held at a local hotel in Karachi. It was a pioneering event in which Pakistani blogs were awarded for their brilliant content and quality. Altogether 207 blogs participated in the competition in the 41 defined categories. The participating blogs were scrutinized and judged by 14 experts [...]

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The National Corruption Perception Survey 2010

The National Corruption Perception Survey 2010 indicates that the overall Corruption in 2010 has increased from Rs 195 Billion in 2009 to Rs 223 Billion, and 70% Pakistanis says that present government is more corrupt than previous government. Most people considered the past Federal government to be cleaner. This is quite similar if we look [...]

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Video: HIV on the rise among UK Muslims

Britain is wrestling with a serious rise in the number of Muslims contracting HIV. One medical expert says that the stigma of having the virus is causing needless deaths among the community in the UK. This is very serious health issue for Muslim Community from all over the world. Jessica Baldwin report from Britain in [...]

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Justice For Imanae Malik

Imanae Malik is a 3 year old child of Aqeel Malik of Lahore, Pakistan. On November 29, 2009 at 3 am in the morning Imanae, spilt hot water on her wrist. Her parents immediately took her to “Doctors Hospital and Medical Center” in Johar Town, Lahore. They don’t know they are going to lose their [...]

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Launch two Pilot Projects on PPP Modality

This is quite challengeable in the honorable court if not tomorrow, may be some time in the future. Why public property is allowed to be used for the benefit of money making organization. They can have their own private setups. – Anwar Ul Haque Ministry of Health, PIMS (Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences) and IPDF [...]

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Swine Flu and its Intriguing Links

Swine flu is a contagious viral respiratory disease linked with pigs. Symptoms include fever, runny nose, sore throat, nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. According to statistics, common seasonal flu kills 250,000 to 500,000 people every year worldwide, far more than the current outbreak of swine flu. So why has there been so much fuss about this [...]

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Myth of Swine Flu and its Vaccine

Every body has tested flu not once but several times in his/her life span. Some people are flu lovers and they catch the flu several times a year! Either flu catches them or they catch the flu! Their nose becomes red; they run temperature and feel aches, pain, lethargic, weak and fatigued! They cough and [...]

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Facts about Human Brain

No, a brain cell is simply one neuron. The power of the brain comes from the fact that we have about 10 billion neurons, and each neuron has up to 10,000 synapses which are connections to other neurons. This mean you can have up to 100 trillion synapses or neural connections! This neural network is [...]

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