ChatGPT as pivot for digital healthcare professionals
30th November 2022 heralded the dawn of a major paradigm shift in the machine-based learning world. On that fateful date, Open AI, an American tech firm, publicly launched ChatGPT, a…
Mental health rights
SOME years ago, in a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court issued a transformative decision in the Safia Bano case, significantly advancing the integration of mental health considerations into the country’s…
Mental health comes first
According to a WHO study, at last one per cent of the total world’s population dies by suicide every 40 seconds across the world. It further states that 5.0 per…
Climate change: a health emergency
On December 3, the recently concluded United Nations Climate Conference (COP28) in Dubai marked the celebration of the inaugural ‘Health Day’. This is the first time that the conference has…
PM&DC and PAPANA unite for mental health awareness
The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PM&DC) has joined forces with the Pakistani Psychiatry Association of North America (PAPANA) in a groundbreaking initiative to launch a comprehensive mental health awareness…
Technology in mental health care
WITH the world becoming increasingly aware of the snowballing mental health (MH) crisis, there has been a corresponding rise in digital-based solutions designed to respond and scale the delivery of…
My health, my choice?
I live in the part of the world where we have five seasons. To me, summer means the month of heat strokes. And as the monsoon settles in, the typhoid…
Making mental health a priority
The World Health Organization (WHO) recognizes World Mental Health Day in the month of October every year. There are endless numbers of calamities, natural and human-made, that are wreaking havoc…
Wanted — ‘Healthy’ entertainment
Bad news is the only news. Open your newspaper or your news feed and it’s all about disease, despair and demise. The virus has shut down the world and flooded…
