Philip Aubrey buys medicines for British government-funded hospitals across London, capital of the world's fifth-largest economy, but last year he struggled to secure supplies of a basic AIDS drug. He…
The Pakistan Pharmaceutical Association (PPA) recently recommended an increase of up to 18pc in the price of medicines while the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) found itself in disarray.…
The tragedy, still unfolding in Lahore, should be an eye-opener. But the problem is not going to be solved by firing a few people. It needs much deeper understanding and…
Rats in a hospital? In the labour room? In a hospital as well-known as the Holy Family Hospital? The scene is too horrific to imagine leave alone write about. Here…
World War II left a trail of death and destruction, bringing misery and impoverishment to millions across the globe. It was especially catastrophic for Europe, China, and parts of the…
Murli and Pushpa are doctors, friends, spouses, poets, and, most of all, teachers of medical sciences. They belong to a rare breed of Pakistanis free from all monetary pursuits, prejudices…
Pakistan’s polycrisis – its economic volatility, political turbulence, social fragmentation, and institutional decay – has one common denominator: a breakdown of governance. Decades of elite capture, politicisation and policy drift…
IF we are to believe the good people at Colossal Biosciences, dire wolves are walking the earth again after having gone extinct some 12,000 years ago. Dire wolves roamed the…
FINALLY, it is happening through the US president’s executive orders — closure of USAID, the start of a tariff war to balance the trade deficit, challenging of trade liberalisation and breaking away from…
