These three habits help your body, and also have a positive impact on your brain. By Tara Swart You might think that the impact of aging on the brain is something you can’t do much about. After all, isn’t it an inevitability? To an extent, as we may not be able to rewind the clock and change our levels of …

Ali Ahmed Jan An illegal appointment allegedly made in violation of rules and without fulfilling the lawful formalities in the health department of Gilgit-Baltistan has surfaced, according to sources and documents copies of which are available with the High Asia Herald. The appointment is a fresh example of nepotism and favouritism rampant in almost all departments of Gilgit-Baltistan exposes the …

Environmental cues can trigger powerful memories of substance use. What happens when those memories are disrupted? Lauren Aguirre This fall, a person addicted to cocaine arrived at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. There, he or she watched a video of people using cocaine and was shown a small bag of what appeared to be either crack or …

Hasan Mansoor KARACHI: The Pakistan Association for Mental Health (PAMH) has said the country is increasingly getting ‘depressed’ with each passing day; while its largest city is offering much larger figures of people suffering from mental disorders. “The actual number of the people with depression and other mental disorders is much more than the recognised 37 per cent aggregate and …

Farman Ali & Anayat Baig A new research report about an outbreak of typhoid in Hyderabad, Sindh, caused by drug-resistant “superbug” strain, has set off alarming bells among health practitioners and government officials. Scientists have warned that treatment options for the new strain are running out, after uncovering the genetic cause of the strain’s antibiotic resistance. Researchers from Britain’s Wellcome …

LONDON An outbreak of typhoid fever in Pakistan is being caused by an extensively drug-resistant “superbug” strain, a sign that treatment options for the bacterial disease are running out, scientists said on Tuesday. Researchers from Britain’s Wellcome Sanger Institute who analysed the genetics of the typhoid strain found it had mutated and acquired an extra piece of DNA to become …

High Asia Herald Report ISLAMABAD In the neonatal intensive care department of an Islamabad hospital, scrawny infants struggle for survival — victims of a vacuum in resources and education in the country with the highest newborn mortality rate in the world. “In Pakistan, a baby dies every second minute,” says Haider Shirazi, head of the neonatal department at the Pakistan …

News Desk About 50 million people are at risk of arsenic poisoning from contaminated groundwater in Pakistan’s Indus Valley, far more than previously thought, according to a new study. Pakistan is aware of the growing problem, with arsenic levels rising in some areas as people increasingly and indiscriminately draw from the country’s underground aquifers, said Lubna Bukhari, who heads the …