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How to respond to Pakistan's alarming suicide rates?
Calls for awareness ought to be accompanied by a push for an increase in professional mental healthcare services.
Sualeha Shekhani
HIV is not a death sentence. So why do we treat it like one?
We need to start dispelling myths surrounding HIV in the healthcare workforce, but in larger society too.
Hockey hero Mansoor Ahmed would not have died had Pakistan had a deceased organ donation programme
It is mind-boggling that the ultimate gesture of kindness requires so much convincing for acceptance in society.
Pakistan’s newest health challenge: The typhoid superbug
While chemists merrily dispense antibiotics, food stalls dispense salmonella, the bacteria that causes typhoid.
Why are Pakistani doctors assisting in the 'missing women' phenomena ?
Gender-selection and sex-specific abortions violate Pakistan's medical code of ethics.
Pakistan's flawed forensic investigation in rape cases is the weak link in the justice system
Forensic medicine is an orphan specialisation in this country with the brightest minds choosing more lucrative fields.
Pakistani medical codes weren't violated in sending friend request to Sharmeen's sister – and that's a problem
The fact of the matter is that most health professionals draw their own boundaries and follow their own norms.