In memoriam
Dr John C Martin, former chairman and CEO of Gilead Sciences, Inc, passed away on March 30 in California at the age of 70. A true innovator, John transformed Gilead…
Dr John C Martin, former chairman and CEO of Gilead Sciences, Inc, passed away on March 30 in California at the age of 70. A true innovator, John transformed Gilead…
Global wisdom is increasingly reaching the conclusion that the holistic model of human development is the real answer to the present and evolving challenges faced by the global community. In…
WE are in the darkness before dawn. There is hope: one, two and now three vaccine candidates have been found to be efficacious against the Covid-19 pandemic that has ravaged…
For months, experts have repeatedly told us that no one is safe from coronavirus until we are all safe. If that is true, we should be going all out to…
As an international public health consultant, I have carried out several public health missions for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the regional office of the World Health Organization (WHO)…
As the moral philosopher Peter Singer asserts, we are just as obligated to save a child half a world away than we are to save a child that is drowning…
A year ago, Pakistan was put under the international spotlight because of the HIV outbreak in Ratodero, Larkana in Sindh that infected over =a thousand children under 15 years of…
Modern calculations confirm that a solar eclipse occurred on January 27, 632 AD. Quoting from Sahih Bukhari “the sun eclipsed in the life-time of Allah's Apostle on the day when…
I have been feeling troubled by the use of war metaphors to describe how the United States is or should be responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. Research by psychologists Paul…
A DECADE ago, world-renowned psychiatrist and medical anthropologist Arthur Kleinman termed the standard of mental healthcare across the world a ‘failure of humanity’. He noted that the worse deficiencies of…